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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.

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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
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live Yourself
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
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
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Discomfortable Thinking True Yourself
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
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
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset

We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.

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