Byron Katie on mindset
Byron Katie196 quotes“Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.”
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
Byron KatieByron Katie When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
Byron KatieByron Katie The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
Byron KatieByron Katie If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
Byron KatieByron Katie All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
Byron KatieByron Katie When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
Byron KatieByron Katie Gratitude is what we are without a story.
Byron KatieByron Katie The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
Byron KatieByron Katie It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
Byron KatieByron Katie You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
Byron KatieByron Katie Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
Byron KatieByron Katie Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
Byron KatieByron Katie Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
Byron KatieByron Katie When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
Byron KatieByron Katie Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
Byron KatieByron Katie If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
Samuel SmilesSamuel Smiles Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
SallustSallust If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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