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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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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
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
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
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 last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up 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
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
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Handle Pain Yourself
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
We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Believe See
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Call Clear Fear Happiness Live Mindset Phone
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
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
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown

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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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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