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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.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts—I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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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.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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Rather than understand the original cause—a thought—we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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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.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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You’re either attaching to your thoughts or inquiring. There’s no other choice.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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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.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They’re all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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You know what I love, sweetheart? The thoughts that used to send us into deep depression—these same thoughts, once understood, send us into laughter.
~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

