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We say to others only what we need to hear.

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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Compassionate Dreams Easy Feeling Remember Yourself
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking 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
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
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
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
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
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 mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result

We say to others only what we need to hear.

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