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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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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering 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
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
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True 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
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking 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
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 love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Creation Love Mindset Word World
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
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering

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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