"Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing."
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"Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love."
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"If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.""
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"Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for."
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"Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know."
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"So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way, but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts will show you the way home to everything you need."
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"We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way."
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"When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done."
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"As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking."
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"I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They're not personal, they don't belong to us, they just come and go. When they're met with understanding, they're friends."
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"What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind"
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"When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough."
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"The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?"
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"If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life."
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"When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business."
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"Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart."
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"Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts."
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"In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire."
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"Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer."
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"The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion."
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