If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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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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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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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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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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God, 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.
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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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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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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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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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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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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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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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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 miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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