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.
BYRON KATIEWhen you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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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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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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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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