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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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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
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
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
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
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
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness 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
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up 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

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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