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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.

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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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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
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
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
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up 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
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.

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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.

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