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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.

Byron Katie

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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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
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
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Comfortable Life Love Ourselves
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Myself Start Stop World
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking Yourself
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves
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
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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Easy Life Moments Right Simplicity Yourself
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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Beautiful Goodness Love Mindset Question See Yourself
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
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
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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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair

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