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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.

Byron Katie

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
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Best Finding Leadership People Way
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Compassionate Dreams Easy Feeling Remember Yourself
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story

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