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.”
BYRON KATIEIf you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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My life is a contribution.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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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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It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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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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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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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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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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