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Overheard - New Years Cleanse, December 28, 1998 -

January 2, 1999

I am a lover of reality.

Go inside - know what is true.

My thinking makes me feel . . . it's all about our thinking.

What is . . . Is.

Personalities don't love . . . They want something.

Clarity is freedom

Self-Realization is freedom.

If it hurts, investigate.

I trust people completely. I trust they will be exactly as they are. I

trust they will lie. I trust they will tell the truth . . . Or not.

Confusion is the only suffering.

We can't love . . . We are love.

The truth is the last place we look.

Investigation is about internal freedom.

Hope is for children.

The only addiction is our addiction to our story (our thinking).

There is no such thing as lonely . . . Only our attachment to the story of

loneliness.

Pain is the " voice " which says to us that it's time to do The Work.

People who are free have dropped their story.

There is nothing you can do to keep me from loving you.

Without a story there is only love.

I know that the whole world loves me. They may just have not realized it

yet.

When someone leaves me, I've been spared.

If you want terror, get a plan.

We have been partner realized forever . . . Now let's be Self-Realized.

I'm not going to be kind . . . I love you instead.

If you're not comfortable with your story . . . Investigate.

He's a mirror image of your thinking - no more, no less.

Our story keeps us from the awareness of what is.

The worst that can happen is the truth.

How do I know I don't need more money? I don't have it! Acceptance!

The Work is about investigation.

Love is the only reality.

Overheard - L.A. Intensive, February 20

-21, 1999

Resistance to reality (what is) equals pain.

The " way out " is to go in.

Expectation is premeditated disappointment.

It's our attachment to our thoughts, which is fearful.

Confusion is wanting two or more things at once.

The one in front of you is your teacher.

Don't " get it " through your head . . . " get it " through your experience.

We do what we want to do all the time.

It's not about right or wrong. It's about what is.

Every time someone rejects me I've been spared.

Look outside of you for help and it's hopeless.

The only addiction is our thinking.

Our perception is our story.

I think that you think what I think about me.

We do The Work for our own freedom and salvation.

My body is not my business. . . My thinking is my business.

If I feel fear I haven't healed yet.

We're not going to understand you - that's your job.

What would you be without your story? - Love.

Pain shows us that we're thinking insanely - it's supposed to hurt!

Our worst enemy is our thinking.

We don't attach to things or people. We attach to our thoughts about things

and people.

Get real! Get into reality - out of illusion.

Argue with reality and you lose . . . But only 100% of the time.

The future is only the projection of the past.

Awareness is everything.

If you want loneliness get into someone else's business.

We teach by how we live.

Pain is an opportunity in life, which leads us to begin the investigation.

It's the attachment to our story, which causes the absence of peace.

Don't be kind be honest.

Overheard - L.A. Intensive, March 13 -14

1999

This Work is a meditation into the heart place.

To live the " turnaround " is a full time job.

We can't give what we don't have.

My prayer, if I were to have a prayer, would be . . . Dear God, please spare

me from the desire for love, appreciation or approval, Amen

There are only three kinds of business - God's, yours and mine.

My thinking is my business.

My incorrect thinking is causing me pain.

Connection with God elevates one from physical consciousness.

I am not the doer. I'm just telling the story.

Love expresses Itself through action.

Physical pain, emotional pain is the red flag telling us to go inside and to

do The Work.

There is only one hunger . . . the hunger for God (Truth).

Anything you hide from us is separation.

We're not drunk with our drinking; we're drunk with our thinking.

The only thing that has ever happened is our story.

Do The Work for the love of Truth.

Don't get ahead of your evolution.

What appears is only a story and we come to see that there is no-thing

outside.

Overheard - San Marcos, CA, March 27, 1999

We worship our stories. These are our religions.

Everything just is . . . it's our stories that make it appear as good or bad

Trust what is . . . resist it - terror!

We don't need inquiry if we are experiencing happiness.

" Letting go " is an outdated concept. Inquire instead, go within.

We'll do anything for love.

The last place we look is within.

Each thought which takes us out of peace requires investigation.

Our story is the only thing that separates us from God.

Overheard - L.A. Intensive,

October 9 -10, 1999

Fear is all body identification.

The Work is meeting our thoughts with understanding.

I have a thought . . . if it doesn't resonate with me and feel good then I

write it down and do The Work.

If the thought is frightening, I've become attached to it.

If I see an enemy I've become confused.

When I see a brother as anything other than perfect, I'm insane.

I finally found something I was good at . . . judgement.

There is nothing more fun than Self-Realization.

When you know how to meet a problem with understanding, there is no problem.

No story - no world.

Our story about reality is paradise lost.

I'm not asking you to drop your story . . . I know how much you love your

religion.

The Work is about 100% responsibility.

Inquiry/investigation takes you into you.

All war belongs on paper.

We hang onto our story because we don't know what to do with it.

Investigate!

Just stay with it . . . the inquiry.

Fear is deaf and blind.

Attachment to my story keeps me from the awareness of gratitude.

All blame belongs on paper with war.

Stories are gifts to be met with understanding.

Overheard - Phoenix, AZ, October 30 -31,

1999

There is only good. If I see anything else I'm insane!

I put it on paper and I investigate myself.

We keep looking for love and we lose.

Confusion is the only suffering.

Investigation opens the self-realization of our hypocrisy.

What's fair is what is.

No story no pain.

I am that which I call you . . . and I was the last to know.

Until I meet my beliefs with understanding they will remain.

Overheard - New Years Cleanse - Malibu, CA, Dec. 29, 1999 - Jan. 2

2000

That's what everything is for - love-realization.

Nightmares are scary for children . . . The Work is about waking up.

Nothing was ever born but a thought. Nothing ever dies but a thought.

Want to know what hell is . . . attempt to teach someone a lesson.

The worst thing that can happen is the best thing that can happen . . . but

only always.

To love you is to love me.

My partner is very clear about my faults. I can't see them without him

(her).

Catastrophe is the word for the next illusion.

The worst that can happen is a thought.

When we're asleep at night there's no pain because there's no story.

There's only one thing to know . . . I don't know.

My body is not my business . . . my thinking is my business.

The Work is infinite as is mind.

Clarity is what we are without our story.

Everything is the language of love. If I don't see it that way I'm

misunderstanding.

Belief is giving meaning to a thought (attachment).

You put us on paper and you come to know yourself.

There is nothing sweeter than being with someone who's honest.

When we see the truth of a story they all become fun.

Ultimately . . . I am my relationship.

No one can hurt another. It's not possible.

Ignorance is confusion.

When I meet a thought with understanding, it lets go of me and everything

becomes perfect.

Don't use investigation to get rid of something. Use it for the love of

truth.

Through understanding there is appreciation.

If you really want to understand yourself, judge your neighbor write it down

ask four questions and then . . . turn it around.

We are either attaching to or investigation our stories.

There are two ways to do everything . . . at war or at peace.

Kindness is a selfish act.

Fear keeps us deaf.

If I have a problem it's me.

This Work is about pettiness - anything that brings you to you.

No one can hurt me . . . that's my job.

Live the turnarounds.

It doesn't take patience; it takes love.

In the world of duality, it's all a story.

No story, no body.

This Work isn't about right or wrong. It's about sanity.

Inquiry's job is to bring us to sanity.

This Work is about Self-Realization.

Overheard - L.A. Intensive - May 13th - 14th , 2000

No judgment - no world.

The Work is about meeting our judgments, thoughts, with understanding - mind

meeting itself without end.

Our children are our victims. We use them (in an attempt) to make ourselves

happy. Hopeless!

We're either attaching to the nightmare or investigating.

I love my story!

All thoughts are recycled.

Want to save a life? Save your own.

If the story that appears is uncomfortable - investigate.

I respect your path because I respect my own.

Nothing happened all those years except your thinking.

The only thing that happens is a thought.

If I am miserable, it can't be your fault.

I go within for my answers . . . and that's the end of war.

The best part about the past is that it's over.

The Work is simply four questions to take you inside of you.

Each time we go inside, it's like meeting an old friend.

I refer to The Work as " home " work.

The Work is about education - my own.

We are responsible for our peace.

Confusion is fear. Inquiry takes you to the Teacher.

What we really want is connection.

No one is or has been used.

If I think, at any moment that I've been abused . . . I am confused.

I need to take care of my own poverty.

Understanding . . . everything dissolves in it.

We always care . . . we just don't have the awareness of caring, sometimes.

To meet my thoughts with understanding is about as good as it gets.

The Work is checkmate.

If I see something as a problem . . . I am confused.

The worst that has ever happened is a story.

The last story - God is everything, God is good.

Stress is a reminder that it's time to do The Work.

We're all looking for love.

I meet my thinking with understanding and the whole world changes.

The nightmare becomes laughter with understanding.

If you ask me, there's no value. Let's ask you.

I could go in to " find it, " instead of going out to war.

Thoughts . . . those are my children . . . and I'm a good mother.

Overheard - Boulder Intensive, September 8, 2000

No one can " lonely " me. I do that.

The Work is not about changing ... it's about realization.

All I can know is myself.

Once the illusion is seen, the nightmare is over.

We don't drop concepts ... they drop us.

This is a very old religion ... mankind should not be angry.

I want the real thing. Some of us are tired of the pain.

I am my own story.

The power of truth transforms everything.

When you call something " their fault, " you're asleep.

Life will give you everything you need.

There are two ways to have no arms and no legs ... in peace or in hell.

Philosophy is so slippery. Realization is everything.

No one can drop a thought. Investigate and the thought will drop you.

Reality and the story never match.

I believe everything people say. I'm just not attached to it.

We can only project what we are.

Until we can see criticism as a gift, it will keep coming.

Realization is nothing until it's lived.

We're babies. It's just a beginning.

Eventually, we bore ourselves to death.

Thought, prior to investigation, obscures truth.

The dream keeps us in the story so we don't realize.

Being " wrong " is the end of arrogance.

A plan is just a story of the future. Guilt is a story of the past.

Overheard - Aspen Intensive, September 9 - 10,

2000

Until I love criticism, my work's not done.

Anger is ignorance ... and it always has to be mine.

Who needs " hope " when we have everything? Which is the state of " what is. "

The Work is self-induced revelations.

Nothing can withstand investigation. It's checkmate!

We don't have to change our lives. Through realization, our lives change.

The fear of death is the last smoke screen for the fear of love.

Don't you love reality? It's ordinary!

The future is always just a projection of the past.

The short version, for me, is God, God, God.

A " broken heart " is just the " someone's done me wrong " story. That cannot

happen. Only I can do that.

If you want to see the " love of your life, " look in the mirror. Until you

can see it that very way ... your work's not done.

It has to be painful, because it's a lie.

No one has ever done anything wrong.

This Work is the collapse of time.

Every criticism I've given has been about my happiness.

Heaven is the end of confusion. We don't have to die to experience it.

Overheard - Tree Intensive, September 30 - October 1, 2000

Everyone loves everyone . . . we just don't have the awareness of it yet.

This work is about absolute reality.

Reality rules . . . it is what it is.

What I like most about the past is that it's over.

We're all having the same experience . . . we're just running a different

story.

If I send flowers to someone . . . it's for me not them.

How do we meet thought? Either as a warrior or as a lover.

Reality and the story never match. Reality is always kinder.

Do The Work for the love of truth, not to get rid of the pain.

I want what you want. That's what love is.

I will " love " you as long as you give me what I want or don't threaten what

I have.

You can't have a problem without a story.

Not even pain can compete with what we are, once realized.

Nothing has even existed . . . and never will. It's all a dream.

Peace will cost you your story.

True kindness is to notice the pain and wake the baby through inquiry.

This work is about the end of suffering.

The more obscure the awareness, the greater the pain.

Attachment to thought is belief.

Trying is the illusion that you're the doer.

Sanity doesn't suffer . . . ever.

The Work will join any religion you've got.

We don't have to know what to do . . . we're directed.

It's very painful to teach unless you're listening.

Without a story . . . I see you.

Overheard - San Diego Intensive,

November 18, 2000

If you feel defensive about something someone says . . . they're right.

We judge the world so that we don't have to look at ourselves.

I am a lover of reality . . . and it's kind . . . and it's free.

Through Self-Realization the " doing " changes.

I don't need any more health than I've got . . . until I do.

Inquiry opens the space to see what's more effective.

Self-Realization is the way to the Master.

Everything I think you are, I am.

I love that every sibling has a different parent.

It's painful to believe what I don't believe.

When I love someone, they have nothing to do with it.

For forty-three years I didn't ask me.

My body is just a vehicle for Self-Realization. That's my story.

Reality is the highest order - what is, is.

It's the lie that's the pain.

God is everything . . . even food.

Do The Work for the love of truth, the love of peace, the love of reality.

No I, no world.

Clarity is the end of fear.

The thought is where the pain exists.

All hell is an uninvestigated belief.

We're all just children finding our way back home.

You are here for our projection . . . nothing more.

No story, no life.

Overheard - Washington, DC Intensive, February 10, 2002

What I love about the past is that it's over.

I chose the right path - it got me here today.

No matter what they did, WHO WOULD I BE without that story?

Answer: compassion-unconditional love

As long as my mind is chaotic, I see a chaotic world.

Hell is: " Help will arrive any minute. "

Freedom is: " No one's coming. "

We're afraid that without our story, life will be BORING!

When I want you to do something, then I can't feel the air around me.

My life cannot be your fault.

I am my only hope.

I think it's so wonderful how you show me that you are not my hope.

We all care about each other, we just don't know it yet.

The 'I don't know' mind is open.

There are no new stressful thoughts.

[ got free by loving her thoughts, accepting them, and doing the

investigation.]

The world is nothing more than a projection of our thoughts.

When we are feeling stressed, that is a gift from the lie we are believing

in to show it to us.

All our problems are from our imagination. When we break through our

imagination, we are free.

There are no mistakes. It's all Love.

The journey inward is where we will find peace.

Self-realization is the most exciting adventure.

The inquiry: The not-knowing mind takes you half way; forgiveness comes and

meets you the other half. It's a gift, you don't have to earn it.

I live in a state of " I don't know " ; I can count on it.

Let it have it's life. That's Reality.

The mind's job is to be right.

Everything I do to harm another can only harm myself.

When I reject another I only reject myself.

Mind is an innocent child. It accepts what I tell it.

When I'm fatigued, I spare the world from what I would have done if I had

had the energy to do it.

These are from a collection of compiled quotes (from talks and work

sessions) given to me back in 1995. C. Ross

" You feed yourself poison with untrue thoughts " .

" Reality is gorgeous. It's my thoughts that hurt me " .

" It's not possible to be sick, it's my thoughts that are sick " .

" Mother your thoughts. Mother the children in your head " .

" There are no neutral thoughts " .

" Love waits " .

" We have a choice: fear matches fear or love matches love " .

" Thoughts, when corrected, are you friends. They bring you to you " .

" It is thoughts that are unbearable, not circumstances " .

" For an answer, go to the place where there is no thought and

listen " .

" When we start to get honest, the space between thoughts gets wider

and wider " .

" We don't quit thinking, because we are thought. But we begin to let

the thoughts roll though instead of attaching to them " .

" Don't buy any beliefs that are not your truth! "

" The ego is a metaphor or name for beliefs...for the mind that has

attached to thoughts and therefore lies to itself " .

" Stress is the result of a mind attaching to a thought " .

" Every belief is about keeping the body alive. And there is no

death " .

" The only dying is the dying of erroneous belief systems " .

" Keep going until you hit your nature --- Love " .

isms from Seattle 2/12/03

When I believe my thoughts I suffer. When I question my thoughts I don't

suffer.

I didn't have to breathe. I was being breathed. I was being thought.

This Work is not a quick fix. We really believe there's a world.

You are sitting in a chair relaxed. And then comes the thought like an

unidentified flying object...how do you feel when that thought comes in? You

are just sitting in your damn chair. That thought is a

lie until it happens.

I need my mother to apologise. Well, she hasn't and I'm still breathing. The

end of victimhood.

The mind is a very painful place to live.

*** If you don't like someone it's because you have thought, said, done

something against them.

How far does that pain travel?

I believe people should do what they do only because they do.

Anger is a mask for fear. My mother hated me. Open up. Can you know another

person's mind? Can you know what another's experience is? This is anger...I

hate you...anger on top of fear.

There's nothing between you and love but unquestioned concepts.

He's not beating you anymore. Why do you live like he's still beating you? I

call it grace when I look at the past - it's not happening anymore. My

father should have beaten me. That's the reality of it. You don't have to

like it. See if you can find the place where you were cleaning the room and

you had the thought 'if I don't do this, he will beat me'. You didn't leave.

Why? Because you wanted something from him. His job is to beat little girls.

And you stayed with him- that's how you beat you.

If I run away he'll kill me. That's the one to question. Can you absolutely

know that's true? I got to see that I am love even in the face of a beating.

You stayed. Look at what kept you there because

what kept you there keeps you here (down I believe) now.

Who would you be if you were just put on this planet without the ability to

think this thought?

Welcome to sanity.

Close your eyes...let your inner world report itself to you.

You want to be with one who's totally honest. You're the one. That's as good

as it gets.

Mind doesn't stop. You just don't believe the thoughts anymore. You can

really welcome them. They're not serious, laugh, smile at them, innocent

children. The mind can rest in the peace of knowing itself. The mind has

found a home.

's paralysis...I was in a state of gratitude...I said to my legs

sweetheart, you don't ever have to walk for me again.'

Where does the feeling travel? Track it. Describe the feeling. You are now

making friends with it.

Client: I'm afraid of the feeling.

: You think if it doesn't stop you will what?

Client: Maybe I will go a little nuts.

. This feeling means you are losing control. Lift your arm. That seemed

to work. Move your leg a bit. That seemed to work. You need control. Is that

true?

It's not possible to be alone.

Notice where your hands are now. Did you plan to put them there? I'm being

lived.

Life is not hard. It's my thoughts about life that are hard.

I would be on the phone and say 'I love that too' and then stop and say 'You

know I don't love that'. Stop in my tracks. I'm terrified you won't like me

if I tell you the truth. I'm terrified you won't be my friend. Clean it up

and eventually it stops. Call them.. so you can hear it. There's a way to

open the door... " I want to share something with you and it may hurt you. I

don't want to share it if you'd rather not hear it " .

When you question your beliefs you're working with the projector and that's

everything you see.

Question the child's mind.

You pass it on so you can get it. This is true for all facilitators: I'm

giving it so I can get it.

He loves you the way he loves you because that's all he can do.

Sweetheart, it's your job to judge.

I'm just telling you where my mind went - what does that have to do

with reality?

Incest: until I found my little part there was no way to be free.

Love and gratitude are synonymous.

isms from NYC workshop, 6/16/03

I love you and there's nothing you can do about it. It's mine. I don't not

love you yet.

We can't change what we don't know.

Please, enemy, wake me up.

There's only one mind.

The past is a lie.

How do you know if someone doesn't accept you? The mind will give you

proof.

Why would you lose someone? The ONLY way is so that something better

can come and take it's place or God would have to be a masochist.

What do they think of me? No one thinks of me. People can only see

themselves - can't see me.

Whatever you believe, your mind will continue to prove what it can

NEVER prove because the mind HAS to be right. That's it's job.

Paraphrasing...couldn't write fast enough....Do the work on what you

are so concerned about....once your inside life becomes so rich, your

outside life can't compete except as " grist " to take you deeper into

yourself.

You have a choice - believe you have a problem or question your mind.

Pain does not come from outside us.

If you think you have a problem, you're insane.

If you have a thought about one (choose an adjective) - you have a

thought about all.

(talking about your stories)...can't see anything else if you don't

believe it...

(something about your own stuff)...(don't wish to own it

yourself)...so I've have to project myself onto another. (so

everything you see on others is just you projected outward...

" What we're doing here is questioning our religion. "

" This work is for children. It's just too simple. "

" This is religion: 'They need my help.' "

" What happened in the past is how we see reality. "

" Choiceless, fearless living...it doesn't need fear as a motivator. "

" I want countries not to be at war...but it [war] works for me! "

" You've had a thought; where's your proof? It's only a thought that you had

a thought. In inquiry we come to see there's nothing...not even the thought

that there's a thought. "

" In inquiry you lose all the nightmares so that all you have left is the

beautiful dream. "

" Fear is our motivator. The Work doesn't let you hide from your fear, so you

may as well decide to die. " (Die to your fear-driven life.)

" I don't need trust. I have absolute trust that you are going to do what you

do. "

" As long as I'm seeking, I can't see what already is. "

" It's very exciting to watch someone come at me with something that doesn't

belong to me. " [i.e. Insults, anger, judgements]

" People are right when I come from an 'I don't know' position. It's amazing

what I learn when I listen. "

" The worst that can happen is always the best that can happen -- but only

always. "

" I noticed that I couldn't stop my behavior...I couldn't fake it. Then when

I stopped yelling at my children, I got to tell the story of how 'I' stopped

my anger...until I did inquiry about it, I didn't think that maybe it just

stopped. "

" All I did was work with this [pointing to forehead], and the doing stopped.

" You have to work with the projector, not the projected. "

" We begin now. Now is where we are. "

" This is one schizophrenic mind [meaning, our collective mind, all our

thoughts are one mind]. Have you heard one new thought today? They're all

recycled. "

" It doesn't take two for closure. "

" Mind looks for proof. That's how it keeps its identity. Without it, it

would fall apart and lose the 'I'. "

" Whatever happens, whatever you turn into, you'll have this inquiry alive

inside of you and what you'll have then is vast. "

" You're being mothered and fathered in every moment. "

" Freedom is about now. "

" Depression is the effect of a story -- no more, no less. "

" 'I should know better than this,' is it true? Obviously not. "

" Everything is for us, nothing is against us. "

" Not functioning might be your function. "

" Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's

true. "

" You know, Love kills. God kills It's a good thing. It is what it is. One

day I noticed. "

" It's okay for me to die. How do I know that? [because] it's okay for you to

die. That's what love is. It loves what is. "

" Anger is a mask for fear. "

" The 'I know' mind is trapped. It's a victim of the world with no hope. "

" You can be right later. For now, go in. "

" If I don't remember something, it didn't happen. "

" I'm free, and when you need me, I'm there...because there's no jailer to

make me go to you. "

" Those of you who have had spiritual experiences, it's always been in a

moment where you 'didn't know.' "

" I'm a lover of truth, not a lover of solving my problems....do this work

and

you may find out you don't have any. "

Overheard in Amsterdam

The heart mind - when the mind begins to understand itself, there is a great

unveiling - Mind loves it. It's a seeker. When it finds answers for itself,

it

begins to listen and the war with Self ends and the result is self love.

The creative wild child - the I know mind - doesn't stop, in the illusion.

When questioned, the mind doesn't believe everything it thinks. End of War.

When you love everything you think, there's no war.

Mind loves to be right.

Ask mind questions and wait for heart to answer.

" It's insane to think that truth is consistent in time. It's ever-

changing in our human experience. Yes, ultimately it never moves.

And, I say let's begin where we are. Can we just tell the truth as it

appears now without comparing it to what is ultimately true or what

was true yesterday? That's it. Honest communication is what it is

now. Ask me again later, and I may have another truthful answer now. "

-- quotes

" It's pretty scary, because it means you've been wrong for your

> whole life. Welcome to heaven. This is where it begins, in

> humility. " I am wrong. I've been confused. " Byron

where do you find all these quotes?

[Guest guest]

>

> " It's pretty scary, because it means you've been wrong for your

> > whole life. Welcome to heaven. This is where it begins, in

> > humility. " I am wrong. I've been confused. " Byron

>

> where do you find all these quotes?

>

The quotes are taken from 's books and audio tapes.

Have a gorgeous day

" My life was like this fable: I walked into the Mohave Desert on a

gorgeous day, minding my own business. Suddenly, Oh my God! -

there's a big fat Mojave Green rattlesnake directly in front of me.

And I had almost stepped on him! No one around for miles and this

could be a painful, slow death. My heart was beating to pop out of

my chest, my brow had broken into a sweat, I was paralyzed by fear.

But then, and I don't know how it happened, my eyes began to focus:

I dared another glance at the snake - and miraculously, I saw: It's

a rope! That snake is a rope! Well, I fell to the ground and began

to laugh, cry and to just take it in. I even had to poke it.

What had happened? I knew one thing: I was safe. I knew that I could

stand over that rope for a thousand years and never be frightened of

it again. I felt such gratitude and ease. The entire world could

come upon this snake, scream, run away, have heart attacks, scare

themselves to death - I could just remain here fearlessly, and pass

on the good news. I would understand people's fears, see their pain,

hear their stories about why it really is a snake, and yet there

would be no way that I could believe them or be frightened of that

rope. I had fallen into the simple truth: That snake is a rope. "

" How do I help people who think that the rope is a snake? I can't.

They have to realize it for themselves. They could take my word for

it, because they want it to be true. But until they see it for

themselves, they would always in their heart's believe that the rope

is a poisonous snake and that they are in mortal danger.

Well, thoughts are like that, and inquiry is about the snakes in the

mind - the thoughts that keep us from love and from the awareness of

being loved. I can see that every loveless, stressful thought in the

mind is a rope. Inquiry is meant to help you discover for yourself

that all the snakes in your mind are really and truly just ropes. "

Byron