Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
BYRON KATIEAny thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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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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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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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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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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This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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