You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
BYRON KATIESuffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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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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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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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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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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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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