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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

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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
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible 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
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
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
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
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
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
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
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Confusion Finding Love Ourselves Way
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

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