I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
BYRON KATIENothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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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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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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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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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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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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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 a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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