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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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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity 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
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner Yourself
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
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
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
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Act Light Mindset Speed Thinking Writing
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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Discover Excitement Happiness Need
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
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

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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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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