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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.

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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Crazy Question Thinking World
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
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
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
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
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.

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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.

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