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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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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Beautiful Myself Perceive Possible World
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
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
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
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time 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
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking

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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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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