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To argue with reality is to argue with God.

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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Myself Perception Story World
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life 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
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Act Hear Human Inspirational Kindness Myself Small
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
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner Yourself
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
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
Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Change Healing Mindset Result
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth

To argue with reality is to argue with God.

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