"We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them."
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"My life is a contribution."
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"There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life."
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"One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer."
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"When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy."
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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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"You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you."
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"Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else."
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"Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories."
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"My experience is the opposite."
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"It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness."
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"When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true."
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"To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking."
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"Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t."
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"People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening."
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"That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization."
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"Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life."
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"We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened."
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"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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"You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple."
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