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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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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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Beginning Believe Peace Possible Priority Problem
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
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
We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Believe See
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Change Healing Mindset Result
It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Believe Identify Lose Yourself
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain 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
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 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
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State

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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