The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
BYRON KATIEEvery mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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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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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 stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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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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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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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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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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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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