If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
BYRON KATIEWe do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
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When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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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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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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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 not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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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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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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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.
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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 came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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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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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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