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.
BYRON KATIEWe may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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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 doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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God, 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.
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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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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 is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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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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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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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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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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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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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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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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