Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
BYRON KATIEYou move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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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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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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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.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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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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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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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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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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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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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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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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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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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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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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