Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
BYRON KATIESo there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
More Byron Katie Quotes
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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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.
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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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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to 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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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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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 may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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