"Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom."
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"Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself."
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"You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way."
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"It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have."
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"We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are."
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"For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now."
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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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"When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us."
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"Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves."
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"Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear."
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"A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise."
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"What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see."
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"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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"There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from."
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"When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time."
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"To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that."
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"So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children."
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"You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again."
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"Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true."
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"Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering."
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