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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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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
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
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
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
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering 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
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Anxiety Experience Simplicity Yourself
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
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
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
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Myself Start Stop World
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question 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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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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