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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
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
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
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
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Believe Change World Yourself
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security 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
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Anand Thakur
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Believe Identify Lose Yourself

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

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