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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Pain
Feelings
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Self
Uncomfortable
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When a thought appears such as Do the dishes and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.
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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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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
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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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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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The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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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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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
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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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Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
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It takes only one person to have a successful relationship.
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I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. If I feel peaceful, they say, why would I bother taking action at all?
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