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.
BYRON KATIE
BYRON KATIE
Byron Katie
Byron Katie196 quotes“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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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
Byron KatieByron Katie Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
Byron KatieByron Katie You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
Byron KatieByron Katie You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
Byron KatieByron Katie What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
Byron KatieByron Katie This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
Byron KatieByron Katie It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
Byron KatieByron Katie 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.
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