It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
BYRON KATIEIf 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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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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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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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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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.
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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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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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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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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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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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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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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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