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.
BYRON KATIEDiscomfort is the call to set yourself free.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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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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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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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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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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