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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.

Byron Katie

Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
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
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
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
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
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown

The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.

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