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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.

Byron Katie

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
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Lose Perspective Privilege
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
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Compassionate Dreams Easy Feeling Remember Yourself
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Job Pain Reason Yourself
There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Nightmare Wake Up Yourself
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Answer Defend Justify Ourselves
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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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.

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