To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
BYRON KATIEThis is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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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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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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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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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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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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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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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 world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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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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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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