After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
BYRON KATIEHappiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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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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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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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.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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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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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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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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When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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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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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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