When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
BYRON KATIEQuestioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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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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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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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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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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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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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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