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A Lover Of What Is Looks Forward To Everything: Life, Death, Disease, Loss, Earthquakes, Bombs, Anything The Mind Might Be Tempted To Call 'bad.' Life Will Bring Us Everything We Need, To Show Us What We Haven't Undone Yet. Nothing Outside Ourselves Can Make Us Suffer. Except For Our Unquestioned Thoughts, Every Place Is Paradise.

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A Lover Of What

Byron Katie

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A Lover Of What Is Looks Forward To Everything: Life, Death, Disease, Loss, Earthquakes, Bombs, Anything The Mind Might Be Tempted To Call 'bad.' Life Will Bring Us Everything We Need, To Show Us What We Haven't Undone Yet. Nothing Outside Ourselves Can Make Us Suffer. Except For Our Unquestioned Thoughts, Every Place Is Paradise.

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You Don't Get To Vote On What Is. Have You Noticed?

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Trauma Is Nothing More Than Being Stuck In What You Believe.

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Asking The Questions - That's What Changes Lives. Every Cell In Your Body Is Awake With Inquiry. And You Cannot Believe The Old Thoughts Again.

When You Question What You Believe, You Leave The World, Really, And What The World Believes. It Puts You In A Very Interesting Position.

Clarity Moves Much More Efficiently Than Violence Or Stress.

What's Happening In The World Is A Natural Course Of Events.

No One Can Give You Freedom But You.

Freedom Of Expression

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When You Run In Fear, It's Square Into The Wall.

A Teacher Of Fear Can't Bring Peace On Earth. We Have Been Trying To Do It That Way For Thousands Of Years. The Person Who Turns Inner Violence Around, The Person Who Finds Peace Inside And Lives It, Is The One Who Teaches What True Peace Is. We Are Waiting For Just One Teacher. You're The One.

It's Not Your Job To Like Me - It's Mine

When You Realize That Suffering And Discomfort Are The Call To Inquiry, You May Actually Begin To Look Forward To Uncomfortable Feelings. You May Even Experience Them As Friends Coming To Show You What You Have Not Yet Investigated Thoroughly Enough.

Uncomfortable Feeling

When You Think That Someone Or Something Other Than Yourself Needs To Change, You're Mentally Out Of Your Business.

Pay Close Attention To The Particular Thoughts You Use To Deprive Yourself Of Happiness.

Freedom Is Our Birthright.

I Realized That It's Insane To Oppose It. When I Argue With Reality, I Lose-but Only 100% Of The Time. How Do I Know That The Wind Should Blow? It's Blowing!

Affecting The World Is Obviously Possible When We See People In The World Who We Really Love And Respect And We See How That They Affect Our Lives.

Love And Respect

Sleep Just Gives The Ego A Little Time Out. It Has To Stay Strong In Order To Be Something That It Isn't.

My Experience Is That The Teachers We Need Most Are The People We're Living With Right Now.

I Like To Say Understanding Is The Power.

Lack Of Understanding Is Always Painful.

Mind Changes, And As A Result, The World Changes. A Clear Mind Heals Everything That Needs To Be Healed.

I Love Not Rushing The Process. Mind Doesn't Shift Until It Does, And When It Does Shift, It's Right On Time, Not One Second Too Late Or Too Soon. People Are Like Seeds Waiting To Sprout. We Can't Be Pushed Ahead Of Our Own Understanding.

I Can Just Talk About My World, And People Relate To It Because It's So Familiar To Them. It's Them, It's Not Me. They're Hearing Themselves.

If You Are An Enemy To Your Own Mind, Other People Have To Become Enemies Too, Sooner Or Later. Until You Understand, Until You Can Love The Thoughts That Appear In Your Mind, Then You Can Love The Rest Of Us. You Work With The Projector -the Mind - Not The Projected World. I Can't Really Love You Until I Question The Mind That Thinks It Sees You Outside Itself . . .

There Are No Physical Problems-only Mental Ones.

An Uncomfortable Feeling Is Not An Enemy. It's A Gift That Says, "get Honest; Inquire." We Reach Out For Alcohol, Or Television, Or Credit Cards, So We Can Focus Out There And Not Have To Look At The Feeling. And That's As It Should Be, Because In Our Innocence We Haven't Known How. So Now What We Can Do Is Reach Out For A Paper And A Pencil, Write Thought Down, And Investigate.

Uncomfortable Feeling

When We Work With Our Thinking, Then To Have Great Wealth Is The Same As To Have Nothing. That's The Only Freedom.

We Say To Others Only What We Need To Hear

Interpersonal Relationship

Actually, I Can't Take Credit For Any Of My Decisions. I Noticed One Day That All My Decisions Were Making Themselves, And Always At The Right Time. I Haven't Had To Make One Decision Since Then. They Are Always Made For Me, And They Come From The Wisdom That Is In Us All. I Trust That Wisdom Completely. That Trust Itself Was A Decision Made For Me As Inquiry Cleared My Mind. No Decision, No Fear.

Never Be Fooled Into Believing That There Is One Speck Out Of Order.

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The World You Live In Is 100 Percent Your Own Responsibility. If You Don't Like Your World, It Doesn't Work To Say, "well, It's My Mother's Fault. She Taught Me How To Think."

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