Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
BYRON KATIEAfter you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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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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It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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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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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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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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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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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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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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