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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

Byron Katie

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
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
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Inspirational Opportunity Present Yourself
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree
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
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself

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