When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
BYRON KATIEQuestioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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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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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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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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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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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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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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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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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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