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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.

Byron Katie

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Comfortable Life Love Ourselves
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 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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Love Ourselves Simplicity World
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
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
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Believe Identify Lose Yourself
When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Crazy Question Thinking World
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live Yourself
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship

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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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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