Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
BYRON KATIEThinking 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.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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