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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.”

Byron Katie

When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
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
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
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
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
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
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
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
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
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
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

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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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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