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

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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
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking 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
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
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
The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Beautiful Myself Perceive Possible 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
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
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
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
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
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Beautiful Fall Feet Realize Yourself
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Anand Thakur
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
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering 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
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Anand Thakur
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
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
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
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
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself

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

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