Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
BYRON KATIEUntil we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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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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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 nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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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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The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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My life is a contribution.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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