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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.

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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
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
That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
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
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
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
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.

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