It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
BYRON KATIEThe whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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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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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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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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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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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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