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We say to others only what we need to hear.

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Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
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
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Confusion Finding Love Ourselves Way
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Discomfortable Thinking True Yourself
I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Act Hear Human Inspirational Kindness Myself Small
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner Yourself
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Myself Perception Story World

We say to others only what we need to hear.

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