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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
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
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
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
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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Love Ourselves Simplicity World
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World 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
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Business Change Mental Thinking Yourself
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Comfortable Life Love Ourselves

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