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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.

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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Question Thinking World Yourself
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
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Beautiful Fall Feet Realize Yourself
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
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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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Act Hear Human Inspirational Kindness Myself Small
It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Believe Identify Lose Yourself
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Believe Difference Heaven Hell Thinking

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