It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
BYRON KATIEIf you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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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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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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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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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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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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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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