Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
BYRON KATIEWe do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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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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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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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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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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