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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

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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
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
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
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
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
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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Freedom God Home Realize Willing
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
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose

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