All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
BYRON KATIEThe way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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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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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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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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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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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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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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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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