If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
BYRON KATIEWe don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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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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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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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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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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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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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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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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