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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 your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
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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Behave Believe Life
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
I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Act Hear Human Inspirational Kindness Myself Small
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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Balance Exercise Fine Health Human Known Mindset
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Believe Difference Heaven Hell Thinking
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
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
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Believe Problem Reason Victim Yourself
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
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
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
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
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True Yourself
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind

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