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Gratitude is what we are without a story.

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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
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
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Discomfortable Thinking True Yourself
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
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
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
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
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
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
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True 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
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

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

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