You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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 not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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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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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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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 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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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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