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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Feeling Moments Pain Realize Stress Suffering Uncomfortable
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 only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Behave Believe Life
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 don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right 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

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

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