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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

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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
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
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
We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Believe See
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking 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
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Believe Change World Yourself
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
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
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
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
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
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

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

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