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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.

Byron Katie

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Calm Door Open Serene
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Change Healing Mindset Result
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Confusion Finding Love Ourselves Way
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
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Believe Inspirational Myself Question
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
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
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Mental Oneself Physical Problem
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
Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Parents Projection Yourself

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