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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Byron Katie

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Anand Thakur
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
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner Yourself
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
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
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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Myself Perception Story World
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
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
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
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Beautiful Fall Feet Realize 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
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
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
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem

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