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.
BYRON KATIEIn 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.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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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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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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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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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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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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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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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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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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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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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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