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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Byron Katie

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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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
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
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
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
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

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