What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
BYRON KATIEQuestioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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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 thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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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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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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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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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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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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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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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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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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