I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
BYRON KATIESuffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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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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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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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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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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My life is a contribution.
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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