The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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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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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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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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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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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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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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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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