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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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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
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
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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Better Finding Greatness Marketing
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 move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking Yourself
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
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
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
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill

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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