In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
BYRON KATIEYou can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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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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The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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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.
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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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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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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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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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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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