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.
BYRON KATIEYou can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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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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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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My life is a contribution.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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