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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Byron Katie

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
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
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
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
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
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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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

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