If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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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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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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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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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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My life is a contribution.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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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’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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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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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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