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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
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
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
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
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
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Live Peace Person Teaching True
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote 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
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Act Light Mindset Speed Thinking Writing
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
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
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
That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Question Thinking World Yourself
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live Yourself

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

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