No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
BYRON KATIEThe most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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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.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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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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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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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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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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