Radical Honesty : How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

The only hope is to give up hope.

Being right is not the most important thing in life. If it was, you might as well kill yourself.

if you feel whole you don't need righteousness to try to feel good.

Integrity both results from and is a manifestation of telling the truth.

If one has integrity, one doesn't need morals.

When you pay attention to the being you are, you withdraw attention from the dilemmas of your mind.

Most people won't give up on trying to force others to take care of them because they won't forgive their early caretakers for not having done a perfect job. Forgiveness is critical to physical and psychological health.

The source of personal power is the ability to interrupt your own mind

If you want to please me, if you want to know what would make me happy, here is what I would really like for you to do: . If you don't do that; it's O.K., I'm a big girl (boy), and I will take care of it myself. You are not obligated to make or keep me happy by doing what I want. I am responsible for my own happiness.

Here is what I want, but you don't have to provide it for me. You are invited and requested, but not obligated, to please me and make me happy, but no sweat if you don't want to