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For Me, If Somebody Tells Me To Go Away, That Is An Opportunity For Me To Give Them A Better Life. And That's An Opportunity For Me To Know And Realize Where Not To Be. It's An Opportunity For Me To See What Could Be Better Than Being With That Person I Love.

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For Me, If Somebody Tells Me To Go Away, That Is An Opportunity For Me To Give Them A Better Life. And That's An Opportunity For Me To Know And Realize Where Not To Be. It's An Opportunity For Me To See What Could Be Better Than Being With That Person I Love.

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

Every Mind Deserves To Be Free.

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

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I Think That's The Trick: Wanting What I Have.

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

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

I Live In A State Of Grace, Where I Don't Have To Know.

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Being Present Means Living Without Control And Always Having Your Needs Met.

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Love Is Worth Living. Why Do You Trade Life For Less?

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

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Every Mind Deserves To Be Free. When The Mind Is Free, That's The End Of Suffering.

The Mind Is So Tricky. It Will Say, "no One Cares. Is It True? Well, Someone Does. Let's See: So-and-so Doesn't Care. Well, Maybe They Do. Well, There Is Someone Who Doesn't Care." It Just Shifts And Shifts And Shifts, So It Can Keep All Of Its Concepts Intact.

People Try So Hard To Let Go Of Their Negative Behaviors And Thoughts, And It Doesn't Work, Or It Works Only For A Short Time. I Didn't Let Go Of My Negative Thoughts; I Questioned Them, And Then They Let Go Of Me, And So Did My Addictions And Depression.

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Insanity Is Arguing With Reality.

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To Understand Our Own Thinking Is To Understand All Thinking.

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Here's What I Would Want For Humanity, Because This Is What I Have Come To See Is True: It's So Simple When We Listen To People.

It's A Wonderful World When You Have What You Want At All Times.

The Miracle Of Love Comes To You In The Presence Of The Uninterpreted Moment. If You Are Mentally Somewhere Else, You Miss Real Life.

Until You Look Forward To All Criticism, Your Work's Not Done.

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

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I Realized That It's Insane To Oppose It. When I Argue With Reality, I Lose-but Only 100% Of The Time. How Do I Know That The Wind Should Blow? It's Blowing!

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A Dishonest Yes Is A No To Yourself.

Whenever You Think That Your Needs Are Not Being Met, You’re Telling The Story Of A Future

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Nothing Comes Ahead Of Its Time, And Nothing Ever Happened That Didn't Need To Happen.

Just Because We Love Someone, We Begin To Notice That Love Is An Experience And We Have To Do Something With It. We Don't Have To Marry People Or Date Them Because We Care About Them Very Deeply. It's An Experience.

The Work Is Four Questions And A Turnaround. The Work Is A Way To Identify And Question The Thoughts That Cause All The Suffering And Violence In The World. The Work Is A Very, Very Simple Process. It's For Anyone Who Can Answer A Question That Is Willing To. It Takes A Bit Of Willingness And An Open Mind.

Life Is The Constant Opportunity To Wake Up.

It's Not The Problem That Causes Our Suffering; It's Our Thinking About The Problem.

The Best Way Of Leading People Is To Let Them Find Their Own Way.

Stress Never Feels As Natural As Peace Does

When You Discover That All Happiness Is Inside You, The Wanting And Needing Are Over, And Life Gets Very Exciting.

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.

Sometimes The Concept You're Questioning Makes More Sense To Ask Just The Second One And Not The First One.

Once We Begin To Question Our Thoughts, Our Partners-alive, Dead Or Divorced-are Always Our Greatest Teachers. There's No Mistake About The Person You're With; He Or She Is The Perfect Teacher For You, Whether Or Not The Relationship Works Out, And Once You Enter Inquiry, You Come To See That Clearly.

Until You Can See Everything In The World As Your Friend, Your Work Is Not Done.

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

I Like To Say It Was Born Out Of Laughter.

Your Most Intimate Relationship Is The One You Have With Your Thoughts.

Intimate Relationships

If You Think The Cause Of Your Problem Is 'out There,' You'll Try To Solve It From The Outside. Take The Shortcut: Solve It From Within.

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.

I Can't Love You As You Have Been Or Will Be. I Can Only Love You As You Are.

When A Thought Appears Such As "do The Dishes" And You Don't Do Them, Notice How An Internal War Breaks Out... The Stress And Weariness You Feel Are Really Mental Combat Fatigue.

I Think Our Children Are Afraid To Die Because We're Afraid To Die.

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

I Could Go On And On About How The Statements And Concepts That Used To Depress Me Now Bring Me Joy, But That Is Not Easily Understood For People Who Think The Way I Used To Think And Believe What I Used To Believe.

Without Our Stories, We Are Not Only Able To Act Clearly And Fearlessly, We Are Also A Friend, A Listener. We Are People Living Happy Lives. We Are Appreciation And Gratitude That Have Become As Natural As Breath Itself. Happiness Is The Natural State For Someone Who Knows That There's Nothing To Know And That We Already Have Everything We Need, Right Here Now.

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.

I'm Not In Iraq. I'm Here In California. Have I Had An Argument With My Husband Today? Have I Been At War With Someone In My Life Today - Or With Myself? Let Me Work On That. That Way War Is Ending Somewhere In The World.

The Only Difference Between Heaven And Hell Is Believing A Thought.

Everyone Wants Peace, Inside And Outside, And We Would All Have It If We Knew How. Now We Know How. It Begins With You.

Would You Rather Be Right Or Free?

When You Srgue With Reality, You Lose, But Only 100% Of The Time.

Questioning Our Stressful Thoughts, We Come To See They're Not True.

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

The Way To Truly Help Someone Is For Me To Not Get Immersed In Their Suffering.

The World Is As You Perceive It To Be. For Me, Clarity Is A Word For Beauty. It’s What I Am. And When I’m Clear, I See Only Beauty. Nothing Else Is Possible.

The Voice Within Is What I'm Married To. All Marriage Is A Metaphor For That Marriage. My Lover Is The Place Inside Me Where An Honest Yes And No Come From. That's My True Partner. It's Always There. And To Tell You Yes When My Integrity Says No Is To Divorce That Partner.

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?

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.

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