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

Byron Katie

I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
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
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True Yourself
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
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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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking Yourself
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live Yourself
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
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 greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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Better Finding Greatness Marketing
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
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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Beginning Believe Peace Possible Priority Problem
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
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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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair

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