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.
BYRON KATIEWhen you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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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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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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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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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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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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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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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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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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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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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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We say to others only what we need to hear.
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My life is a contribution.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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