This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
BYRON KATIEDon’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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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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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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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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If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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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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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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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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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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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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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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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.
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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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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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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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