It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
BYRON KATIEYou might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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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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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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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 stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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