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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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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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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.

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When We Stop Opposing Reality, Action Becomes Simple, Fluid, Kind, And Fearless.

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Sadness Isn't A Natural Response.

All Sadness Is A Tantrum.

Maybe Everything We've Ever Done Has Been For Love.

I'll Tell You That For Me, One When Someone Used To Say Something That Was True, One Way I Knew It Was True Was That I Immediately Felt Defensive. I Blocked It Off, And I Went To War With Them In My Mind And Suffered All That Goes With It. And They Were Only Saying What Was True.

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.

You Are What Exists Before All Stories.

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.

Don't Be Careful. You Could Hurt Yourself.

The Work Always Leaves You With Less Of A Story. Who Would You Be Without Your Story? You Never Know Until You Inquire. There Is No Story That Is You Or That Leads To You. Every Story Leads Away From You. Turn It Around; Undo It. You Are What Exists Before All Stories. You Are What Remains When The Story Is Understood.

It's Not Your Job To Like Me - It's Mine

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

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Love Is Who We Are Without Our Stories.

When You Believe That Your Problem Is Caused By Someone Or Something Else, You Become Your Own Victim.

Would You Rather Be Right Or Free?

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.

Low Self-esteem Is Not Possible When You Understand The Nature Of Everything. Depression Is Not Possible. The Universe Is Absolutely Friendly.

You Can't Drop Concepts. You Can Only Shine A Little Flashlight On Them As You Do Inquiry, An You See That What You Thought Was True Wasn't. And When The Truth Is Seen, There's Nothing You Can Do To Make The Lie True For You Again.

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 I Had A Prayer, It Would Be This: "god, Spare Me From The Desire For Love, Approval, Or Appreciation. Amen."

No One Has Ever Been Angry At Another Human Being-we’re Only Angry At Our Story Of Them.

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

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?

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

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

Judge Your Neighbor, Write It Down. Ask Four Questions, Turn It Around.

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Every Moment A Gift: Are You Unwrapping Yours Now, And Now, And Now?

Who I Believed Myself To Be Was A Hopeless Case. I Would Wake Up In The Mornings And Notice I Was Still Alive And Breathing And Hate God, Hate Myself, Hate Life, And Contemplate Ways Of Killing Myself.

Thoughts Are Just What Is. They Appear. They're Innocent. They're Not Personal.

All The Advice You Ever Gave Your Partner Is For You To Hear

No-one Can Disappoint You, Only Your Thoughts About Them Can

Whatever It Takes For You To Find Your Freedom, That's What You've Lived.

Whatever It Takes

The World Is What You Believe It To Be, And It Changes As You Change.

We're All Looking For Love, In Our Confusion, Until We Find Our Way Back To The Realization That Love Is What We Already Are.

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.

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.

Life Is Simple. Everything Happens For You, Not To You.

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

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.

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

When A Thought Hurts, That’s The Signal That It Isn’t True.

I Like To Say It Was Born Out Of Laughter.

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.

To Argue With Reality Is To Argue With God

You Cannot Hurt Me. Only I Can Do That.

To Understand Our Own Thinking Is To Understand All Thinking.

I Know That Even At Moments Of Apparent Danger, Nothing Is Out Of Order Or Lacking, Other Than Our Own Unquestioned Thoughts About Those Moments.

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.

Everything That Happens Is God's Will. When You Realize That, You're Home Free.

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

The Ability To Understand The Cause Of Your Own Suffering Gives You The Ability To Understand Ours.

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

Each Time Your Mind Changes Your Whole World Is Changed.

'i Don't Know' Is My Favorite Position.

There Is No Thought Or Situation That You Can't Put Up Against Inquiry. Every Thought, Every Person, Every Apparent Problem Is Here For The Sake Of Your Freedom.

Stress Is An Alarm Clock That Lets You Know You're Attached To Something Not True For You.

When You Act Like A Teacher, It's Usually Because You're Afraid To Be The Student.

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.

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Mind Changes, And As A Result, The World Changes. A Clear Mind Heals Everything That Needs To Be Healed.

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

I Shouldn't Steal In This World.

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

You’ve Never Reacted To Someone Else. You Project Meaning Onto Nothing. And You React To The Meaning You’ve Projected

Do You Want To Be Right More Than You Want To Know The Truth? It's The Truth That Set Me Free. Acceptance, Peace, And Less Attachment To A World Of Suffering Are All Effects Of Doing The Work. They're Not The Goals. Do The Work For The Love Of Freedom, For The Love Of Truth.

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

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

Live In The Moment

You Don't Have To Feel Bad To Act Kindly. Love Doesn't Stand By, It Moves With The Speed Of Clarity.

There Is No Mistake In Nature.

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

The Mind's Job Is To Validate What It Thinks.

Nothing You Believe Is True. To Know This Is Freedom.

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

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

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.

It's For Each Of Us To Look At What We Really Do Believe - What Our Belief System Really Consists Of.

When You Become A Lover Of What Is, The War Is Over.

There Is No Peace In The World Until You Find Peace Within Yourself In This Moment.

Thinking That People Are Supposed To Do Or Be Anything Other Than What They Are Is Like Saying That The Tree Over There Should Be The Sky. I Investigated That And Found Freedom.

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

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