Byron Katie - Loving what is (2002)

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But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.

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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

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When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

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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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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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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

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There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.

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I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

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I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

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We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.

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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.

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Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

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Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

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Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly—no mistake.

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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

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We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.

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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it's true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we've been attaching to, often for years.

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If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don't have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

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Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

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Thoughts aren't personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?

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Until you look forward to criticism, your Work's not done.

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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.

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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

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That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

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It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

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I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

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That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.

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