When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
BYRON KATIELife is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
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We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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I have had the privilege of losing everything.
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My life is a contribution.
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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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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
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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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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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