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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.

Byron Katie

I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
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
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
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
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
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
No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Disappoint Thinking Yourself
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Best Finding Leadership People Way
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself

That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.

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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.

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