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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Byron Katie

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Live Peace Person Teaching True
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait 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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live Yourself
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Act Light Mindset Speed Thinking Writing
It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Behave Believe Life
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself

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