You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
BYRON KATIEYour parents are your projection-nothing more.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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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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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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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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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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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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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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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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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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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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