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.
BYRON KATIEThe last story: God is everything, God is good.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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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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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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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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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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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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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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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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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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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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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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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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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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