The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
BYRON KATIEUntil the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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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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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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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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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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My life is a contribution.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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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 way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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