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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

Byron Katie

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Beautiful Myself Perceive Possible World
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
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
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
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
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
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
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
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
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

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