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.
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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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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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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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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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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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
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This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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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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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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