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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.

Byron Katie

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
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
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
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
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
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Creation Love Mindset Word World
What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Health Imagination Mindset Perfection State
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Immerse Suffering True Way
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Beautiful Fall Feet Realize Yourself
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Believe Change World Yourself
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Myself Start Stop World
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Condition Planet Stress Thinking

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