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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

Byron Katie

That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
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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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Call Clear Fear Happiness Live Mindset Phone
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?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Hurt Thinking True
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
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.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

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