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Byron Katie

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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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Handle Pain Yourself
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking
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 are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
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 whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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Myself Perception Simplicity World
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship 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
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result

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