Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
BYRON KATIEWhen they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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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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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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