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

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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
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
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
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Behave Believe Life
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
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
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
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself

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

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