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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

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Influence Pain Please Reason Result
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
Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Life Terrible Thinking Yourself
What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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Anand Thakur
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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Existence Love War Yourself
You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Notice Politics Vote Yourself
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Effect Story Yourself
We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Beginning Creativity Environment Human Mindset Mirror Ourselves
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Attention Close Happiness Pay Yourself
You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Believe Possible Yourself
It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Believe Easy Finding See Way
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
There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Believe True Yourself
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Anxiety Experience Simplicity Yourself
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Ourselves Thinking Understand
God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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God Intention Moments Name Word
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Body Identify Live People Pleasure Security Yourself
I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Believe Love Temptation Thinking
Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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Freedom God Home Realize Willing
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Attachment Ourselves Story
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Attack Heart Notice Work Yourself
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Future Need Story Thinking
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Meaning Projection Reaction
Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Control Live Need Present Yourself
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Believe Freedom Known True
Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Beginning End Oneself Peace People Problem
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Gift Moments Wrap Yourself

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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