You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
BYRON KATIEWhen you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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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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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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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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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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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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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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