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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

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces Yourself
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
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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Myself Perception Story World
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life 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
To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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Balance Exercise Fine Health Human Known Mindset
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

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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