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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
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
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
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’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Business Change Mental Thinking Yourself
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
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
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
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Change Healing Mindset Result
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking Yourself
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
If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Question Thinking World Yourself
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
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
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
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
It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Believe Identify Lose Yourself
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
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
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
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
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

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