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 KATIENothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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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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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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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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