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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

It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Believe Ourselves System
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
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
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Call Clear Fear Happiness Live Mindset Phone
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
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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Balance Exercise Fine Health Human Known Mindset
We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Believe See
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live 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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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Appearance Fear One Liner
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner Yourself
Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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Freedom God Home Realize Willing
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
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
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
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
Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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Believe Lying Yourself
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree

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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