When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
BYRON KATIEAny story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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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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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don’t know anything finer than that.
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When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
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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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My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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