When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
BYRON KATIEEveryone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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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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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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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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