You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
BYRON KATIEThoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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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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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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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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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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