I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
BYRON KATIEMind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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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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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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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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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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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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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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