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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

Byron Katie

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
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
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
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
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
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
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life Love Miracle Moments Presence Reality Yourself
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher

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