We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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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 parents are your projection-nothing more.
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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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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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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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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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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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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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