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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

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
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Question Stress Thinking True
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
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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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
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
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Confusion Finding Love Ourselves Way
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Care Live Priority Safety Wind
It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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Beginning Believe Peace Possible Priority Problem
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Paradise Place Time
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
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
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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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Best Death End Equality Thinking Yourself
I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Creation Love Mindset Word World
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself

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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