It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
BYRON KATIEWhen you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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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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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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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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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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