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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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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
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
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
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
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 either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking 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
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
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
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself

Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

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