If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
BYRON KATIEThe way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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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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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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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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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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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.
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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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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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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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