It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
BYRON KATIEUntil 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.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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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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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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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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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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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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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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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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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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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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