Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
BYRON KATIEWhen your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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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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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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My life is a contribution.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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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 only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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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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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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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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