After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
BYRON KATIEYou’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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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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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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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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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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