I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
BYRON KATIEI didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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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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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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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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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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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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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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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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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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