There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
BYRON KATIEWe’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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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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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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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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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 understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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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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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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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.
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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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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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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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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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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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