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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
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
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
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
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
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
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Believe Difference Heaven Hell Thinking
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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