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.”
BYRON KATIEJust keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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 world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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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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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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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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That’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.
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