The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
BYRON KATIEThe best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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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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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination–even you.
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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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Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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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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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
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That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
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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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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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