“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You couldto explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.”

Source: The Mastery of Love (1999), Ch.4 - p.71

"A Changed Person", p. 96
Awareness (1992)
Context: It's only when you become love — in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments — that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last! You no longer feel the need or the compulsion to explain things anymore. It's all right. What is there to be explained? And you don't feel the need or compulsion to apologize anymore. I'd much rather hear you say, "I've come awake," than hear you say, "I'm sorry." I'd much rather hear you say to me, "I've come awake since we last met; what I did to you won't happen again," than to hear you say, "I'm so sorry for what I did to you."

Source: The Broom of the System

Source: Economic Warfare Quotes

The Motto Book (1907).
Variant: Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

Source: Talking It Over

"Teacher"
The Children's Story (1982)

To All the Boys I've Loved Before