It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
BYRON KATIEOur parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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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 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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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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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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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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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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The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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