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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

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You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.

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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

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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.

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We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.

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Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

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No one has ever been angry at another human being—we're only angry at our story of them.

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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.

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Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.

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When you stay present with your children, that's where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that's where everything you deserve in life is. When you're in presence, there's no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.

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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future

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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.

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There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

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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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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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