Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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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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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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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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.”
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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