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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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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain 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
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Feeling Moments Pain Realize Stress Suffering Uncomfortable
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking Yourself
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
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
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
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand

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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