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

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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Close Heart Mindset Open Yourself
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
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
I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Act Hear Human Inspirational Kindness Myself Small
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
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
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
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
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
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering

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