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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

Byron Katie

It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Behave Believe Life
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Control Let Go Myself People Thinking Understand
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Existence Let Go
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Past Reality Thinking Yourself
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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Attachment Clock Stress True Yourself
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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Appearance Experience Myself Personal Simplicity Thinking
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Darkness Fear Imagination People
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Important Mindset Relationship Thinking
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Believe Choice Question Thinking Yourself
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
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Appreciation Approval Desire God Myself Prayer
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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Beautiful Goodness Love Mindset Question See 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
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result

I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

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