You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
BYRON KATIELife is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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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.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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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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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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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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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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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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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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