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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.

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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
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering 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
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop 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
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
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
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
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
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

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