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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.

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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
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Beautiful Myself Perceive Possible World
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
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
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
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
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
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.

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