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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.

Byron Katie

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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Believe Ourselves Story Suffering Thinking
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
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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Creation Difficult Genuine Love Ourselves People Prison Seek
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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Love Moments Myself Smile Thinking
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Business Finding Kind Universe Yourself
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
We say to others only what we need to hear.
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Hear Need Talk
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Life Simplicity Yourself
I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Forgiveness Myself Problem See
You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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Handle Pain Yourself
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
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
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Believe Creation Happiness Moments Suffering Yourself
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Business Change Mental Thinking Yourself

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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