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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.

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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True Yourself
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
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
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
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
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
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity 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

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.

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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.

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