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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

Byron Katie

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
It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Problem Reason Suffering Thinking
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
Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Believe Difference Heaven Hell Thinking
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Amazing Experience Ourselves Quite Thinking
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Act Hear Human Inspirational Kindness Myself Small
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
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
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
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Fragment Important Light Pieces 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
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking

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