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

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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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Myself Perception Simplicity World
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
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
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
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
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
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
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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Change Clear Money Need Thinking Work
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
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

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

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