When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
BYRON KATIEWhen we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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