Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
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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It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
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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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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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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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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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Every stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.
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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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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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The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
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I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
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