I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Anand Thakur
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
BYRON KATIEWhen 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.
BYRON KATIEThere’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
BYRON KATIEThoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
BYRON KATIEI 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.
BYRON KATIEWhen you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
BYRON KATIEWhen a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
BYRON KATIEWe never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
BYRON KATIEDiscomfort is the call to set yourself free.
BYRON KATIEThe only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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.
BYRON KATIEThe nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
BYRON KATIEIt’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
BYRON KATIEPay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
BYRON KATIEWhen safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
BYRON KATIEWe 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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