This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
BYRON KATIE
BYRON KATIE
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Byron Katie196 quotes“This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.”
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
Byron KatieByron Katie Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
Byron KatieByron Katie Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
Byron KatieByron Katie A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
Byron KatieByron Katie 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.
Byron KatieByron Katie We say to others only what we need to hear.
Byron KatieByron Katie I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
Byron KatieByron Katie When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
Byron KatieByron Katie That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
Byron KatieByron Katie Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
Byron KatieByron Katie You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
Byron KatieByron Katie I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
Byron KatieByron Katie Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
Byron KatieByron Katie I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
Byron KatieByron Katie Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
Byron KatieByron Katie We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Abu BakrAbu Bakr He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Abu BakrAbu Bakr By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler The path to paradise begins in hell.
Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky A wanderer who found beauty in a quiet jungle and went into a mysterious paradise in search of a treasure of silence in which the whole universe hides.
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