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

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
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
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
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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Better Finding Greatness Marketing
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
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work 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
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need

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

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