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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
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
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
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
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
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
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering 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 ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

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