When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
BYRON KATIEI stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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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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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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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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What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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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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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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