A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
BYRON KATIEWhen you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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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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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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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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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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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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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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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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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
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