The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
BYRON KATIETo argue with reality is to argue with God.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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.
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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’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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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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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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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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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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