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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.

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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
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
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
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
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Believe Change World Yourself
It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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Beginning Believe Peace Possible Priority Problem
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
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
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
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
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
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
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
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way

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