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 KATIEYour nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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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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I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
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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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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
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Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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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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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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After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
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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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Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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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 doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
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