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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces Yourself
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Myself Start Stop World
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’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking
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
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
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
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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Myself Perception Simplicity World
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
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
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
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Believe Easy Finding See Way
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
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
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

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