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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking 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
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself
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
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
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
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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Love Ourselves Simplicity World
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True 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
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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Change Clear Money Need Thinking Work
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Confusion Finding Love Ourselves Way
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
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
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True Yourself
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

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

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