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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.

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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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Beginning Believe Peace Possible Priority Problem
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Live Peace Person Teaching True
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Believe Change World Yourself
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life Love Miracle Moments Presence Reality Yourself
When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Crazy Question Thinking World
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself

Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.

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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.

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