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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

Byron Katie

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Beautiful Fall Feet Realize Yourself
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare
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
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
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
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
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
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves
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
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

You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

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