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.
BYRON KATIEWe say to others only what we need to hear.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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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 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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We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone 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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Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
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