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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True Yourself
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story 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
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Myself Start Stop World
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
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
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
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

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

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