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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Exception Live Situation Terrible Thinking Yourself
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Children Lying Mindset Open Partner People Realize Tolerance
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Anand Thakur
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Believe Harm Thinking
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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Comfortable Feeling Money Pain Realize World
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Confusion Goodness Hurt Lying Pain Signal Yourself
The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Investigate Pain Yourself
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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Children Interpretation Listening Oneself
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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Easy Life Moments Right Simplicity Yourself
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
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Angry Human Story
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap 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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Fear Reason Thinking Yourself
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Happiness Known Natural State Yourself

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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