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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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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
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
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
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live Yourself
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking 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
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
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
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner Yourself
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself

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

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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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