Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
BYRON KATIELook at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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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.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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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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Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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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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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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