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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

Byron Katie

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 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
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
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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Anand Thakur
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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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Feeling Moments Pain Realize Stress Suffering Uncomfortable
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
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
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
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Myself Start Stop World
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Anxiety Experience Simplicity Yourself
If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Question Thinking World Yourself
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
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
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

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