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.
BYRON KATIEGod, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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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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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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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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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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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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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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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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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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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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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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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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This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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