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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.

Byron Katie

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
BYRON KATIE

Future Need Story Thinking
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Feeling Moments Pain Realize Stress Suffering Uncomfortable
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking Yourself
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
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
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
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
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Behave Believe Life
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
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
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking Yourself
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
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
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life Mirror Self Love Yourself
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Finding Freedom Live Yourself
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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

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