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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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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
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True Yourself
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
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
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself
It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Behave Believe Life
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
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Act Light Mindset Speed Thinking Writing
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
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
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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Change Clear Money Need Thinking Work
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt 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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