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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.

Byron Katie

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
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Anxiety Experience Simplicity Yourself
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Feeling Nature Peace Stress Truth
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Discomfortable Thinking True Yourself
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Argument Past Suffering
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
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
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Believe Problem Reason Victim Yourself
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Creation Love Mindset Word World
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True Yourself

Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.

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