To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
BYRON KATIEWhen you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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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.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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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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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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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.
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