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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.

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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
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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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible 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
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
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
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Forgiveness Myself Problem See
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
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
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Feeling Moments Pain Realize Stress Suffering Uncomfortable

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.

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