The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
BYRON KATIEReality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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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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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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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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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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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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This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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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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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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