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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

Byron Katie

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
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Act Light Mindset Speed Thinking Writing
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself
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
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Concept Daughter Time Way Work Yourself
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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Appearance Investigation Life Perfection Reveal Story Understand
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Action Kind Reality Simplicity
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Business Finding Kind Universe 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
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Beautiful Open Reality
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Clear Goodness Oneself Person Relationship
Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Distribution Equality Wisdom
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Believe Change World Yourself
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Control Ourselves Thinking Way
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
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Alarm Clock Friendship Purpose Time Work
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness Thinking Yourself
When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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Argument Lose Reality Time Yourself
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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