Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
BYRON KATIENo-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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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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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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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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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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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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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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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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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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