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.
BYRON KATIENothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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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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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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