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

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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True Yourself
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
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
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life Love Miracle Moments Presence Reality Yourself
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand

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

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