Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
BYRON KATIEIf I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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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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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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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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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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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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