It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Anand Thakur
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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