What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
BYRON KATIEMy experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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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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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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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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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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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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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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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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