Byron Katie Quotes
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That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.
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You are what exists before all stories.
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It is not your business to love me. It is mine.
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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 you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.
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One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.
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You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
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If our stressful thoughts aren't true, what does that leave? It leaves, "I am loveable" - the very thing I could never make myself believe, because "I'm unloveable" overrides it when the chips are down.
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The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
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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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Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.
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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.
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The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?
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You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.
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No one can give you freedom but you.
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I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.
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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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Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.
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I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in.
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You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.
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For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.
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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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