Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
BYRON KATIENo one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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We cannot see what we don’t believe.
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We begin to not be human, as we’ve known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we’re confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
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It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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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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Realizing 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.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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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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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
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