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 KATIEWhen we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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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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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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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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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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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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