Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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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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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 people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of 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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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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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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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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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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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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