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.
BYRON KATIEUntil we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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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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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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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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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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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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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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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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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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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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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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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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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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