It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
BYRON KATIEWhatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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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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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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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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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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