Byron Katie - Loving what is (2002)

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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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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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If I had a prayer, it would be this: God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.

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Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don't even realize that they're just theories.

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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

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Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

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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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Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

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I don't let go of concepts—I question them. Then they let go of me.

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If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror.

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Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

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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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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

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Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless.

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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you've attached to something not true for you.

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When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

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The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.

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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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Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

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A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

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Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

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The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.

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If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

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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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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

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