The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
BYRON KATIEYou are the effect of your story, that’s all.
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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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
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It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
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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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We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
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Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
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The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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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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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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