Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
BYRON KATIEIf our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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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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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
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The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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My life is a contribution.
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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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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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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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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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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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