Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
BYRON KATIEIt’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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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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We say to others only what we need to hear.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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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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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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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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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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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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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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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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