If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
BYRON KATIEUntil we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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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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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.
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You don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
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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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To argue with reality is to argue with God.
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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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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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