I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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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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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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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