When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
BYRON KATIEUntil we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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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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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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