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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.

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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
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
We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Believe See
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces Yourself
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
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
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
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

That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.

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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.

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