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 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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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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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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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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If 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.
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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