Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
BYRON KATIEThat’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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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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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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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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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.
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