If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
BYRON KATIEUntil we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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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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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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So there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
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It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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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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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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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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