I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
BYRON KATIEFear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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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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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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