We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
BYRON KATIEIt’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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