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.
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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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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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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What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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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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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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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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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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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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