It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
BYRON KATIEHere’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.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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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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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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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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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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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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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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