Byron Katie Quotes

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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

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You can't have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That's the way this works.

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Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

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To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

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The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.

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It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about realizing what's true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around.

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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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When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

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The apparent craziness of the world, like everything else, is a gift that we can use to set our minds free.

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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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When a thought hurts, that's the signal that it isn't true.

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It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future

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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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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

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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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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

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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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I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!

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When you're focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you're believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.

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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.

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There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

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A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.

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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

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Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

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So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

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