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 KATIEIt’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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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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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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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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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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