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Loving what is (2002)
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.
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What is is. You don't get a vote. Haven't you noticed?
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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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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.
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We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.
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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
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The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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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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Is it true?
Can you absolutely know that it's true?
How do you react when you believe that thought?
Who would you be without the thought?
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
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But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
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When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.
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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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In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.
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I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.
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I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
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We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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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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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.
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Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly—no mistake.
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."
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