I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
BYRON KATIESo there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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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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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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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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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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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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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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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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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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