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

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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Change Healing Mindset Result
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner 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
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
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
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
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
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering 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
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself

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