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.
BYRON KATIEWe cannot see what we don’t believe.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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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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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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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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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
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Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it.
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The pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
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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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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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