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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Byron Katie

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
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
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
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
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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Believe Lying Yourself
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
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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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself

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