Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
BYRON KATIEIt’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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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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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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