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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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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
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
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Behave Believe Life
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
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
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
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

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

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