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

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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Myself Start Stop World
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Myself Perception Story World
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time 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
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
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible 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
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene

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