If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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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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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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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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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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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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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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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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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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