When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
BYRON KATIEDo you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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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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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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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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