"Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal."
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"So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?""
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"Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived."
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"The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself."
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"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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"I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well."
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"When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire."
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"It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace."
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"You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe."
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"We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment."
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"I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts."
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"The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification."
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"Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you."
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"Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action."
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"The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the world? I can't. And we all have equal wisdom, so if I can do it then I know that anyone can do it if their mind is open to answering just four simple questions and beginning there."
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"Life is the constant opportunity to wake up."
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"You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works."
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"I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it."
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"If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet."
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"I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are."
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