I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
BYRON KATIEPlacing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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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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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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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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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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