It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe – what our belief system really consists of.
BYRON KATIEIt is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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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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Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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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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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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