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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

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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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Job Myself
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True Yourself
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
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
Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Close Heart Mindset Open Yourself
The 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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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
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
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
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
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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Better Finding Greatness Marketing
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Love Mindset Nature Oppose
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life Love Miracle Moments Presence Reality Yourself
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself

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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