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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
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself
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
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Believe Change World 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
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
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
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Discomfortable Thinking True Yourself
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
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
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
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself

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