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

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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap 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
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
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
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Anand Thakur
When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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Love Ourselves Simplicity World
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
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
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
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
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True

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