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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.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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• In reality, there is no such thing as a “should” or a “shouldn’t.” These are only thoughts that we impose onto reality. The mind is like a carpenter’s level. When the bubble is off to one side—“It shouldn’t be raining”—we can know that the mind is caught in its thinking. When the bubble is right in the middle—“It’s raining”—we can know that the surface level and the mind is accepting reality as it is. Without the “should” and “shouldn’t,” we can see reality as it is, and this leaves us free to act efficiently, clearly, and sanely. Asking “What’s the reality of it?” can help bring the mind out of its story, back into the real world.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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• When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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• I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not. And I came to embrace reality with all my heart. I love the world, without any conditions.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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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.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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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.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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• Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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• As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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• Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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

  ~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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