I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
BYRON KATIEThe mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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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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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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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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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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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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After 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.”
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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