Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
BYRON KATIEWhenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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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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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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We say to others only what we need to hear.
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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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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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