When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
BYRON KATIEIt’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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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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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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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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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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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 ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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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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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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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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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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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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