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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.

Byron Katie

It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Anand Thakur
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
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
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
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking

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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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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