It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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 believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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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 mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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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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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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