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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.

Byron Katie

Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Friendship Work World Yourself
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Need Philosophy Time
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
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
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
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
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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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Feeling Moments Pain Realize Stress Suffering Uncomfortable
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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Easy Life Moments Right Simplicity Yourself

When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.

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