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Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.

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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
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
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
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
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True Yourself
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Forgiveness Myself Problem See

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