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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Byron Katie

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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Discover Excitement Happiness Need
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need
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
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
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True Yourself
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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Meaning Projection Reaction
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
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Confusion Finding Love Ourselves Way
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True Yourself
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind

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