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.
BYRON KATIEIf you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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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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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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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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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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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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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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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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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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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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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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