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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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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
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
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
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
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
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
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Forgiveness Myself Problem See
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself

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