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 KATIEAfter 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 KATIEThe only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
BYRON KATIEWho would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
BYRON KATIEThis is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
BYRON KATIETo argue with reality is to argue with God.
BYRON KATIEThe opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
BYRON KATIEWhen we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
BYRON KATIEThinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
BYRON KATIEThe world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
BYRON KATIEWhatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that’s what you’ve lived.
BYRON KATIEThat’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
BYRON KATIEThe pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
BYRON KATIEThe Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
BYRON KATIEPay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
BYRON KATIEUntil we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
BYRON KATIEWhen we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
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