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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.

Byron Katie

Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
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
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking 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
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Crazy Question Thinking World
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer
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
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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Act Light Mindset Speed Thinking Writing

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