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.
BYRON KATIEYou don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
More Byron Katie Quotes
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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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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Our 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.
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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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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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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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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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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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