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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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Myself Perception Simplicity World
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Discomfortable Thinking True Yourself
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

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