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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.

Byron Katie

Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Dangerous Fear Love Separate Violence
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
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
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
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Life Love Trade Worth
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Home Wait Yourself
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Experience Kindness Place Thinking Yourself
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.
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Argument Believe Mindset Suffering Thinking Time
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Decision Right Time
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Age Awareness Maturity
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
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Problem Reason Solution Thinking
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Kindness Reality Thinking 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
What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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Anand Thakur
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Appreciation Fun Love Reality Seek Spare

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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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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