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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.

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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story 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 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
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
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
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life Love Miracle Moments Presence Reality Yourself
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
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
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
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
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
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
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live 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
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare

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