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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

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If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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Beautiful Goodness Love Mindset Question See Yourself
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
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
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
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
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
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking

I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

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