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.
BYRON KATIEWhen we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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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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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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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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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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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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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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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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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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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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