Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
BYRON KATIE
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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
Byron KatieByron Katie To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
Byron KatieByron Katie 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 KatieByron Katie Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
Byron KatieByron Katie You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
Byron KatieByron Katie Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
Byron KatieByron Katie The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
Byron KatieByron Katie Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
Byron KatieByron Katie We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
Byron KatieByron Katie It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
Byron KatieByron Katie Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
Byron KatieByron Katie Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
Byron KatieByron Katie It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
Byron KatieByron Katie There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
Byron KatieByron Katie You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
Byron KatieByron Katie We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels like. It would be really uncomfortable walking around in the Sahara and being like, ‘I really need, like, 15 lozenges for my giraffe body.’
Charlie PuthCharlie Puth The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
Tom FordTom Ford The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
Thomas MertonThomas Merton Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.
SaadiSaadi Grief sits uncomfortably until it seeps under your skin, so you no longer feel weighed down by it but still feel its subtle presence.
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