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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

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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
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness 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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Myself Perception Simplicity World
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Believe Easy Finding See Way
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Feeling Moments Pain Realize Stress Suffering Uncomfortable
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

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