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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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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True Yourself
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
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
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
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
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
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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Balance Exercise Fine Health Human Known Mindset
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
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
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Believe Easy Finding See Way
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces Yourself
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need
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
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story

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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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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