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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

Byron Katie

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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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Deserve Freedom Mindset Suffering
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Imagination Life Yourself
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Beautiful Myself Perceive Possible World
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
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Angry Myself Opinion Thinking Unkind Way
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
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
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.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
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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Children Freedom Friendship Parents Point Time Yourself
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself

If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”

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