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We say to others only what we need to hear.

Byron Katie

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
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
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
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
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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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene

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