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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.

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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Handle Pain Yourself
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
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
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up 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 is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
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

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