Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
BYRON KATIEWhen you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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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.”
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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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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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Here’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.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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