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.
BYRON KATIEThe only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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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 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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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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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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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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