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.
BYRON KATIEThe world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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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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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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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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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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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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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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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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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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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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