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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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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
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
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
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 understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
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
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking
When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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Love Ourselves Simplicity World
In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal 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
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Call Clear Fear Happiness Live Mindset Phone
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself

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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