If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
BYRON KATIESince the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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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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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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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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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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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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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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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.
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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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