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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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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
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 safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True

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