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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.

Byron Katie

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
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
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
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
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
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
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
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
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

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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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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