If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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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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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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We say to others only what we need to hear.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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