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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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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
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
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
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
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Beautiful Fall Feet Realize Yourself
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror 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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