Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
BYRON KATIE
BYRON KATIE
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Byron KatieByron Katie It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Byron KatieByron Katie The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Byron KatieByron Katie No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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