The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
BYRON KATIEThe most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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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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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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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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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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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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