I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
BYRON KATIESpare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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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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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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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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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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We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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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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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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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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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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