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

Byron Katie

In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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Believe Lying Yourself
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Comfortable Life Love Ourselves
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
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
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
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Call Discomfortable Freedom Yourself
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Fear Invention Reality Yourself
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Head Image Ourselves Question Stress Thinking
I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Love Myself Willing Yourself
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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