You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
BYRON KATIENothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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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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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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