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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

Byron Katie

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life Love Miracle Moments Presence Reality Yourself
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True Yourself
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity 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 would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People 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
Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Close Heart Mindset Open Yourself
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story 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

It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

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