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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
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
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
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
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
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Beautiful Fall Feet Realize 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
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Believe Difference Heaven Hell Thinking
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself

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

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