When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
BYRON KATIEGod, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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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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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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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 good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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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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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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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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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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