Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
BYRON KATIEEveryone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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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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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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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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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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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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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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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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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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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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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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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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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.
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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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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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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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