You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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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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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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You 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.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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