Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
BYRON KATIEI am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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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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We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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If 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.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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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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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Nothing 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.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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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.”
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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