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.
BYRON KATIEWhen you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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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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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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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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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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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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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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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
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