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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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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
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom 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
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Believe Problem Reason Victim Yourself
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
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
We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Believe See
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
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves

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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