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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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Beautiful Goodness Love Mindset Question See Yourself
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself
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
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
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Change Healing Mindset Result
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
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
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
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
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
Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Close Heart Mindset Open Yourself
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself

You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

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