If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
BYRON KATIEI love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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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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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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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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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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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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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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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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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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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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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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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.
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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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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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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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