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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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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
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
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Anand Thakur
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
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Forgiveness Myself Problem See
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Handle Pain Yourself
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity

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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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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