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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Anxiety Experience Simplicity Yourself
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
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
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
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
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
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
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

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

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