Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
BYRON KATIEForgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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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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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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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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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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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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