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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
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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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Compassionate Dreams Easy Feeling Remember Yourself
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time 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
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
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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Myself Perception Simplicity World
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity

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