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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Byron Katie

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
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
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
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
It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Believe Identify Lose 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
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War 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
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself

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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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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