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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

Byron Katie

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Blame Person Suffering Yourself
When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Fall Mindset Open Place
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
To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Argument God Reality
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
Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
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
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Death Equality Fear Live
So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Enlightenment Forever Moments Transcendence
All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Advice Hear Partner 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
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
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
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
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
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
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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Discover Excitement Happiness Need
When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Crazy Question Thinking World
I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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Beautiful Goodness Love Mindset Question See Yourself
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Best Finding Leadership People Way
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Image Mirror Thinking 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

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

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