We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
BYRON KATIEAny thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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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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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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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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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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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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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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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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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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