When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
BYRON KATIEHappiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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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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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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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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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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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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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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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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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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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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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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My life is a contribution.
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