Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
BYRON KATIEWithout 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.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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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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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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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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The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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My life is a contribution.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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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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