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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”

Byron Katie

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Handle Pain Yourself
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Move Reality Reason Suffering Yourself
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
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
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
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
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
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Believe Life Suffering Yourself
Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Close Heart Mindset Open Yourself
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
When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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Discover Excitement Happiness Need
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking

So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”

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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”

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