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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.

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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
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
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking 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
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Act Light Mindset Speed Thinking Writing
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
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
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
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
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
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
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
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
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Business Finding Kind Universe Yourself
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal 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
The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Beautiful Myself Perceive Possible World

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