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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Byron Katie

It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Believe Identify Lose 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
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
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
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
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Greatness Life Paper Question Stress Thinking
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking 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
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Compassionate Dreams Easy Feeling Remember Yourself
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite 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
We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Believe See
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life Love Miracle Moments Presence Reality Yourself
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
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
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
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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Easy Life Moments Right Simplicity Yourself
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself

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