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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.

Byron Katie

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
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Question Thinking World Yourself
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Blame Change Experience Judgement Place Power Powerful Yourself
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Compassionate Dreams Easy Feeling Remember Yourself
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story 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
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
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Business Finding Kind Universe Yourself
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
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
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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Easy Life Moments Right Simplicity Yourself

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.

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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.

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