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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
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
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
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Question Thinking World Yourself
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
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
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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