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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

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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
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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Meaning Projection Reaction
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
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
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Anand Thakur
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
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
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
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself

If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

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