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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.

Byron Katie

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
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
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
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner Yourself
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
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Live Peace Person Teaching True
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
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
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People

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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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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