When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
BYRON KATIEWhen we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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