Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
BYRON KATIELife just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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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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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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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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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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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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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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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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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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