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

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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Business Finding Kind Universe Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible 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
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
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
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer

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

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