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We say to others only what we need to hear.

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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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Love Ourselves Simplicity World
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Believe See
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
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up 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
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
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
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
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
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
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
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
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
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
When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Crazy Question Thinking World
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
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself

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