Most of the time you're a gentle soul, 

able to hold your family and friends in

love and compassion.

And then, sometimes...

kaboom!

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Triggered, you find yourself in

fury and anger,

grief and loss and sadness,

 or fear and anxiety.

You find yourself thinking things you'd never want to have to admit to,

or maybe saying things you regret later.

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Your day is derailed, 

maybe your week,

 or maybe it's a lifelong pattern

you're fighting against.

You'd get rid of those thoughts

if you could, but they seem to

stick to you like cement.

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Inquiry is a tool to help you find your way back to love and peace.

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Those harshly critical thoughts,

those judgments that just seem to pop up out of nowhere, and never

seem to shut up?

That's not who you really are.

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Byron Katie,

creator of the Inquiry Process,

describes our thoughts as small children

who desperately want to be heard

and understood.

Then, when they have been

listened to without judgment or fear,

their job is done, 

and they let you go.

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We can try forever to stop our 

judgmental thoughts, but as long

as we are human, they will keep coming.

That's the job of the ego mind,

and it takes its job seriously!

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We don't need to feel ashamed

of our critical thoughts, or try to rationalize them away.

They are our inner children, who, when listened to with love and compassion, finally let us go.

We want to tell our story.

What happened. What's happening.

What they did or didn't do.

But that story is part of the problem.

The story isn't real.

It isn't the only truth.

The story is a distraction

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So I'm going to say, wait. 

Don't tell me your story.

Take a breath.

Close your eyes.

Let's pause together, and go on an

internal journey, looking for truth.

The real cause of this pain, 

this strife, this suffering.

Let's question those thoughts,

that story, and see what we find.

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It's a return to love, 

and a path to freedom.

From that expansive place of love,

our true nature shines,

and we can look on the other with 

love again, and peace.

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