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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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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
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
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
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
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Comfortable Life Love Ourselves
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
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself

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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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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