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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Byron Katie

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
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Discomfortable Thinking True Yourself
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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Change Clear Money Need Thinking Work
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
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
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
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
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress 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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Meaning Projection Reaction
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

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