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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

Byron Katie

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
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
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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Change Clear Money Need Thinking Work
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
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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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Believe Difference Heaven Hell Thinking
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking
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
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Live Peace Person Teaching True
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing 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
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem

Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

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