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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

Byron Katie

Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Care Hurt Yourself
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
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
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Control Drop Illusion Reality Story Yourself
We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Realize Suffering Unknown
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Call Clear Fear Happiness Live Mindset Phone
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 mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Job Mindset Thinking Validate
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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Opinion Permission Reality Wait
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
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Give Up Yourself
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Known Myself
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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God Myself Need
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Achievement Happiness Myself
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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