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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.

Byron Katie

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
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Anand Thakur
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Confusion Finding Love Ourselves Way
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
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
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces Yourself
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
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
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
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
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
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 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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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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