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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

Byron Katie

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
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
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Business Change Mental Thinking Yourself
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question 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
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself

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