We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
BYRON KATIEBeing present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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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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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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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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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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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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It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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