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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Creation Love Mindset Word World
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Best Finding Leadership People Way
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story 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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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
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
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 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
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
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Believe Difference Heaven Hell Thinking
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
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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Easy Life Moments Right Simplicity Yourself
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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Better Finding Greatness Marketing
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
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
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Call Clear Fear Happiness Live Mindset Phone
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
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 world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Believe Change World Yourself

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

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