It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
BYRON KATIEWhen 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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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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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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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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