If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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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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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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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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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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