It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
BYRON KATIEYou don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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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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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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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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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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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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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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