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

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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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Easy Life Moments Right Simplicity Yourself
Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
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
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Anand Thakur
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering 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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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Beautiful Fall Feet Realize Yourself
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Anand Thakur
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Business Change Mental Thinking Yourself
In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Act Light Mindset Speed Thinking Writing
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
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
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
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
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
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
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
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
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself

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

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