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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.

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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
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
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
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
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
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Believe Problem Reason Victim 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
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself

We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.

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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.

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