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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
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Feeling Moments Pain Realize Stress Suffering Uncomfortable
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote 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
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
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Handle Pain Yourself
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
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 doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
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
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
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
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
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

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