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 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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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
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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.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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My life is a contribution.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realization.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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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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