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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

Byron Katie

You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Appearance Avoid Join Love Monster Nightmare
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Call Clear Fear Happiness Live Mindset Phone
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
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
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
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
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

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