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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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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Myself Perception Story World
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
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal 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
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
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
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
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

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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