Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
BYRON KATIENo one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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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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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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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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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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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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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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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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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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