The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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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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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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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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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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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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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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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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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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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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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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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