Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
BYRON KATIEYou would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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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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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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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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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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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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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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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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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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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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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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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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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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