When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
BYRON KATIEEvery mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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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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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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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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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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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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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.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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