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.
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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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 world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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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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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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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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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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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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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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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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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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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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