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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.

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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
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
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
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Comfortable Life Love Ourselves
If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Question Thinking World Yourself
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Live Peace Person Teaching True
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
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
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself

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