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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.

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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
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
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 move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story 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
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
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

It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.

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