Byron Katie on perception
Byron Katie196 quotes“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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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
Byron KatieByron Katie You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
Byron KatieByron Katie No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
Byron KatieByron Katie We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
Byron KatieByron Katie 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.
Byron KatieByron Katie Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
Byron KatieByron Katie There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
Byron KatieByron Katie Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
Byron KatieByron Katie When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
Byron KatieByron Katie I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
Byron KatieByron Katie What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
Byron KatieByron Katie Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
Byron KatieByron Katie Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
Byron KatieByron Katie I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
Byron KatieByron Katie 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.
Byron KatieByron Katie 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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You don’t need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
Beanie SigelBeanie Sigel Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Organized perception is what art is all about.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
Lord ByronLord Byron I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.
Shaquille O'NealShaquille O'Neal
