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.
BYRON KATIETo 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.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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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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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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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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You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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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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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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