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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Believe Identify Lose Yourself
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
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
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Best Finding Leadership People Way
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
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
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
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live

It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

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