You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
BYRON KATIEQuestioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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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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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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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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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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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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