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A Teacher Of Fear Can't Bring Peace On Earth. We Have Been Trying To Do It That Way For Thousands Of Years. The Person Who Turns Inner Violence Around, The Person Who Finds Peace Inside And Lives It, Is The One Who Teaches What True Peace Is. We Are Waiting For Just One Teacher. You're The One.

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A Teacher Of Fear

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A Teacher Of Fear Can't Bring Peace On Earth. We Have Been Trying To Do It That Way For Thousands Of Years. The Person Who Turns Inner Violence Around, The Person Who Finds Peace Inside And Lives It, Is The One Who Teaches What True Peace Is. We Are Waiting For Just One Teacher. You're The One.

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I Discovered That When I Believed My Thoughts, I Suffered, But That When I Didn’t Believe Them, I Didn’t Suffer, And That This Is True For Every Human Being. Freedom Is As Simple As That. I Found That Suffering Is Optional. I Found A Joy Within Me That Has Never Disappeared, Not For A Single Moment.

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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?"

If You Don't Like Your World, Question Your Thoughts About It.

Who Would You Be Without The Thought "i Need More Money To Be Safe?" You Might Be A Lot Easier To Be With. You Might Even Begin To Notice The Laws Of Generosity, The Laws Of Letting Money Go Out Fearlessly And Come Back Fearlessly. You Don't Ever Need More Money Than You Have.

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Would You Rather Be Right Or Free?

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Reality Is Always Kinder Than Your Thinking.

I See The Goodness And Beauty In Everyone, And Everything Is A Gift Given For Me And For All Of Us. If You Don't Love It, Question Your Mind Until You Do.

When You Question What You Believe, You Leave The World, Really, And What The World Believes. It Puts You In A Very Interesting Position.

If I Think That Someone Else Is Causing My Problem, I'm Insane.

My Experience Is That The Teachers We Need Most Are The People We're Living With Right Now.

Sleep Just Gives The Ego A Little Time Out. It Has To Stay Strong In Order To Be Something That It Isn't.

The Ego Is Terrified Of The Truth. And The Truth Is That The Ego Doesn't Exist.

That's Huge: Just To Clean Up One Ecosystem.

Your Understanding Of Another Person Is Limited By What You Think You Already Know. So When You Just Listen, The Person You Meet Won't Match Your Preconception. The Exciting Thing Is That You Usually Meet Someone Much Wiser And Kinder Than You Expected. You Might Also Lose Track Of Your Ideas About Who You Are.

Place Only Your Kindest Thoughts On Everything You Experience Today. Meet Yourself.

You Move Totally Away From Reality When You Believe That There Is A Legitimate Reason To Suffer".

Without An Uninvestigated Story, There's Only The Perfection Of Life Appearing As Itself. You Can Always Go Inside And Find The Beauty That's Revealed After The Pain And Fear Are Understood.

Every (stressful Thought) Is A Variation On A Single Theme: This Shouldn't Be Happening. I Shouldn't Be Having This Experience. God Is Unjust. Life Isn't Fair.

Do You Know Anyone Who Hasn't Changed His Mind? This Door Was A Tree, Then It Will Be Firewood For Someone, Then It Will Return To Air And Earth. We're All Like That, Constantly Changing. It's Simply Honest To Report That You've Changed Your Mind When You Have. When You're Afraid Of What People Will Think If You Speak Honestly, That's Where You Become Confused.

Seeking Love Keeps You From The Awareness That You Already Have It—that You Are It.

We Are Never Really In Control. We Just Think We Are When Things Happen To Be Going Our Way.

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.

And As Long As We Believe What We Believe - Until That Is Questioned - There's No Progress As A Human Race. Again, We Still Have War. So, Effective Rehabilitation Is To Question What We Believe. When That Happens, Everyone Gets Out Of Prison.

Suffering Over Things That Have Happened To Us Is Nothing More Than An Argument With The Past.

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I Believe In The Power Of Every Human Being To End Suffering.

Everyone Has Equal Wisdom. It Is Absolutely Equally Distributed. No One Is Wiser Than Anyone Else.

Mind Is Everything. There's Nothing That It's Not.

I Am The Perpetrator Of My Suffering - But Only All Of It.

Happiness Is The Natural State For Someone Who Knows That There's Nothing To Know.

All I Have Is All I Need And All I Need Is All I Have In This Moment.

There Are No Physical Problems-only Mental Ones.

When We're Not Defending And Justifying, And We're Being Very Still, Our Answers Can And Do Shock Us.

Just Keep Coming Home To Yourself, You Are The One Who You've Been Waiting For.

The Work Reveals That What You Think Shouldn't Have Happened Should Have Happened. It Should Happened Because It Did, And No Thinking In The World Can Change It. This Doesn't Mean That You Condone It Or Approve Of It. It Just Means That You Can See Things Without Resistance And Without The Confusion Of Your Inner Struggle. No One Wants Their Children To Get Sick, No One Wants To Be In A Car Accident; But When These Things Happen, How Can It Be Helpful To Mentally Argue With Them? We Know Better Than To Do That, Yet We Do It, Because We Don't Know How To Stop.

The Perfect World Is Created When The Mind Is Free To See It.

When You’re Focused Outside And Believe That Your Problem Is Caused By Someone Else, Rather Than By Your Attachment To The Story You’re Believing In The Moment, Then You Are Your Own Victim, And The Situation Appears To Be Hopeless.

If Your Beliefs Are Stressful And You Question Them, You Come To See That They Aren't True - Whereas Prior To Questioning, You Absolutely Believe Them. How Can You Live In Joy When You're Believing Thoughts That Bring On Sadness, Frustration, Anger, Alienation, And Loneliness?

Realizing That People Should Lie When They Do Makes Me A Little More Open-minded, A Little More Tolerant, When My Child Or My Partner Lies.

It Doesn´t Come Later. Everything You´re Supposed To Do Is Here Right Now.

Some Of Us Are Returning To Sanity, Because We're Tired Of The Pain. We're In A Hurry. No Time To Mess Around.

Any Stressful Thought That You Have About The Planet, For Example, Shows You Where You Are Stuck, Where Your Energy Is Being Exhausted In Not Fully Meeting Life As It Is, Without Conditions.

The World Isn't What I've Believed It To Be, And I Am Not What I Believed Me To Be, And Neither Is Anyone.

I Invite Everyone To Question Their Thoughts About Their Children And Allow Their Children To Be Free. That's When We Stop Teaching Our Children Fear.

It's Only Our Story That Keeps Us From Knowing That We Always Have Everything We Need.

As Far As Intellect, What Else Is There? Without Intellect, No Story And No World.

The World Is Nothing But My Perception Of It. I See Only Through Myself. I Hear Only Through The Filter Of My Story.

When The Creative Mind Is Unleashed And Understands Its True Nature, It's Unlimited. There's Nothing You Cannot Do.

I Use The Word Inquiry As Synonymous With The Work...inquiry Is A Way To End Confusion And To Experience Internal Peace, Even In A World Of Apparent Chaos. Above All Else, Inquiry Is About Realizing That All The Answers We Ever Need Are Always Available Inside Us.

When You Run In Fear, It's Square Into The Wall.

Life Is The Constant Opportunity To Wake Up.

If You Realized How Beautiful You Are, You Would Fall At Your Own Feet.

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.

People Don't Need Sudden Revelations. They Get What They Need When They Need It, Thought By Thought By Thought. It's A Constant Thing When The Mind Starts To Wake Up To Itself.

Every Single Human Being Is Trying His Best. We're All Doing The Best We Can. But When We Believe What We Think, We Have To Live Out Those Thoughts. When There's Chaos In Our Heads, There's Chaos In Our Lives. When There's Hurt In Our Thinking, There's Hurt In Our Lives. Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself? I Always Have. When I Hated Me, I Hated You. That's How It Works. If I Hate Someone, I'm Mistaking Them For Me, And Solutions Remain Hidden.

I Am Never Unhappy, You Can Achieve That As Well.

Love Asks For Nothing. Only Personalities Want Something.

When Safety Is Our Priority, We Live Our Lives Being Very, Very Careful, And We Wind Up Having No Lives

Behold Your World! The Judgments You Believe Just Created It.

There Is Nothing That Isn't True If You Believe It; And Nothing Is True, Believe It Or Not.

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.

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.

If You Want Real Control, Drop The Illusion Of Control; Let Life Have You. It Does Anyway. You’re Just Telling Yourself The Story Of How It Doesn’t.

Personalities Don't Love. They Want Something.

We Never Make A Decision. When The Time Is Right, The Decision Makes Itself.

If You Are Mentally Somewhere Else, You Miss Real Life

I've Heard People Say That They Cling To Their Painful Thoughts Because They're Afraid That Without Them They Wouldn't Be Activists For Peace. "if I Feel Peaceful," They Say, "why Would I Bother Taking Action At All?"

So What Is It With Your Mother That You Haven't Worked Out Yet?

Until The Mind Is Open, The Heart Stays Closed. The Open Mind Is The Key To The Open Heart.

Our Job Is Unconditional Love. The Job Of Everyone Else In Our Life Is To Push Our Buttons.

You Can't Have An Up Without A Down. You Can't Have A Left Without A Right. This Is Duality. If You Have A Problem, You Must Already Have The Solution. The Question Is, Do You Really Want The Solution, Or Do You Want To Perpetuate The Problem?

Don't Be Careful. You Could Hurt Yourself.

An Uncomfortable Feeling Is Not An Enemy. It's A Gift That Says, "get Honest; Inquire." We Reach Out For Alcohol, Or Television, Or Credit Cards, So We Can Focus Out There And Not Have To Look At The Feeling. And That's As It Should Be, Because In Our Innocence We Haven't Known How. So Now What We Can Do Is Reach Out For A Paper And A Pencil, Write Thought Down, And Investigate.

Uncomfortable Feeling

Everyone Is A Mirror Image Of Yourself-your Own Thinking Coming Back To You.

Nothing Outside You Can Ever Give You What You're Looking For.

The Nightmare Always Becomes Laughter, Once It's Understood.

I Do Whatever I Can To Serve Peace. My Job Is The End Of Suffering.

The Most Important Relationship Is The Mind's Relationship With Itself. In Other Words, The Ultimate - And, Really, The Only - Relationship You Have Is The Relationship With Your Own Thoughts.

Important Relationships

Love Is Action. It's Clear, It's Kind, It's Effortless, And It's Irresistible.

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.

When You Say Or Do Anything To Please, Get, Keep, Influence, Or Control Anyone Or Anything, Fear Is The Cause And Pain Is The Result.

I Have Never Experienced A Stressful Feeling That Wasn't Caused By Attaching To An Untrue Thought. Behind Every Uncomfortable Feeling, There's A Thought That Isn't True For Us.

Uncomfortable Feeling

Reality Is Always The Story Of A Past, And What I Love About The Past Is—it's Over.

Our Parents, Our Children, Our Spouses, And Our Friends Will Continue To Press Every Button We Have, Until We Realize What It Is That We Don't Want To Know About Ourselves, Yet. They Will Point Us To Our Freedom Every Time.

If You Knew How Important You Are, You Would Fragment Into A Billion Pieces And Just Be Light.

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.

Every Mind Deserves To Be Free.

A Mind That Doesn't Question Its Judgements, Makes The World Very Small And Dangerous.

We Do Not Mature Through Age. We Mature In Awareness.

Self-realization Is Not Complete Until It Lives In Action.

A Dishonest Yes Is A No To Yourself.

I Stopped Waiting For The World To Give Me What I Wanted; I Started Giving It To Myself.

As We Watch The World Embrace The Olympics In The Coming Days, Let Us Remember Why The Modern Olympics Came Into Being: To Bring Nations Closer Together, To Have The Youth Of The World Compete In Sports, Rather Than Fight In War. As Long As We Believe Our Own War-driven Thoughts, There Will Always Be War, In Ourselves, In Our Families, And In Our World. As Long As We Believe Our Thoughts, There Will Always Be War.

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