It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
BYRON KATIESpare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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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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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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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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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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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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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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My life is a contribution.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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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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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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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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