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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.

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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
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking 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
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
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
It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.

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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.

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