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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.

Byron Katie

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Anxiety Experience Simplicity Yourself
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
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
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
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
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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

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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