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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.

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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
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Discomfortable Thinking True Yourself
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking Yourself
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Handle Pain Yourself
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
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
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces Yourself
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
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

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