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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.

Byron Katie

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
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
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
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Business Change Mental Thinking Yourself
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
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
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
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
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
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking

It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.

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