Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
BYRON KATIERealizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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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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We say to others only what we need to hear.
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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare – it looks forward to it.
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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 only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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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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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
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