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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.

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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
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces Yourself
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
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
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Business Finding Kind Universe Yourself
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner 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
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
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
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
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer

You are the effect of your story, that’s all.

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