The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
BYRON KATIEThinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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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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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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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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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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