It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
BYRON KATIEEveryone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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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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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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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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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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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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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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