We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
BYRON KATIEYou don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
More Byron Katie Quotes
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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great 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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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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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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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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