You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
BYRON KATIEYour most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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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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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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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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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 you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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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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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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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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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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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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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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