When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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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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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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