When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
BYRON KATIEIf you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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The 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.
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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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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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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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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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.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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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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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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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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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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