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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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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live Yourself
If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Question Thinking World Yourself
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
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
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time

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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