Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
BYRON KATIEThe mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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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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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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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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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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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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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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