Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
BYRON KATIEPay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
BYRON KATIEEveryone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
BYRON KATIEYour most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
BYRON KATIEIf our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
BYRON KATIEWhen you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
BYRON KATIEWhen 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.
BYRON KATIENothing 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.
BYRON KATIEIf I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
BYRON KATIETo 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.
BYRON KATIEThat’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
BYRON KATIESince the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
BYRON KATIEOur parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
BYRON KATIEThe 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.
BYRON KATIEWhen you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
BYRON KATIEThe whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
BYRON KATIEEvery 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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