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.”
BYRON KATIEDon’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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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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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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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 last story: God is everything, God is good.
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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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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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