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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

Byron Katie

A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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Beginning Believe Peace Possible Priority Problem
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Myself See World
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Ego Existence Terrify Truth
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Experience God Stress Thinking Unfair
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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Myself Perception Simplicity World
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
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Intimate Relationship Thinking Yourself
I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Fight Myself Shame Stop Thinking
Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Live Mindset Wisdom
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Destruction Ego Job Kill
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Amazing People Yourself
My life is a contribution.
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Contribution Life Myself
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Authentic Story Suffering Yourself
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
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Clear Happiness Life Live Way
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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God Goodness Story
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Gratitude Identify Story
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life Love Miracle Moments Presence Reality Yourself
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Experience Freedom Kindness Moments Realize Stress
The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Beautiful Myself Perceive Possible World
Thinking 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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Freedom Investigation Myself People Sky Thinking Tree

Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

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