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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.

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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Change Healing Mindset Result
I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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Beautiful Goodness Love Mindset Question See Yourself
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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Believe Lying Yourself
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
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
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
So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship

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