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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

Byron Katie

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 didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces Yourself
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation 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
I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Creation Love Mindset Word World
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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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
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

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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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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