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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

Byron Katie

You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
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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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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Balance Exercise Fine Health Human Known Mindset
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
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 you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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Discover Excitement Happiness Need
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

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