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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

Byron Katie

I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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
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
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
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
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Change Healing Mindset Result
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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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

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