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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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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Believe Easy Finding See Way
It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Behave Believe Life
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
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
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
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
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
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Myself Perception Story World
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True

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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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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