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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

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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
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
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
The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Beautiful Myself Perceive Possible World
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Compassionate Dreams Easy Feeling Remember Yourself
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
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
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
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
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
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking Yourself
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Myself Start Stop World
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress 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
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Best Finding Leadership People Way
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

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