Gratitude is what we are without a story.
BYRON KATIEThere’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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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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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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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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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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