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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

Byron Katie

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Comfortable Experience Stress Thinking True Yourself
You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Believe Conditional Goodness People Teaching
That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Fear Investigation Thinking
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Act Hear Human Inspirational Kindness Myself Small
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Depend Happiness Yourself
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
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
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
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Action Clear Irresistible Kind Love
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Experience Live Right Teacher
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Believe Human Power Suffering

I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

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