Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
BYRON KATIEWhat would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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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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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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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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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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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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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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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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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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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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My life is a contribution.
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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