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Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.

Byron Katie

The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Appearance Personal Thinking
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
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Myself True Upset
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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Easy Life Moments Right Simplicity 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
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up 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
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
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Myself Perception Story World
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Discover Forgiveness 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
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

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