Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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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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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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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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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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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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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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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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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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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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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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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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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