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“We all do emotional gymnastics to be seen as wonderful or funny – just to get what we already have. And because we’re doing the gymnastics, we don’t see that we already have it.”

— Byron Katie

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Byron Katie Quote: “We all do emotional gymnastics to be seen as wonderful or funny – just to get what we already have. And because we’re doing the gymnastics, we don’t see that we already have it.”

“We all do emotional gymnastics to be seen as wonderful or funny – just to get what we already have. And because we’re doing the gymnastics, we don’t see that we already have it.”

— Byron Katie

Byron Katie Quote: “We all do emotional gymnastics to be seen as wonderful or funny – just to get what we already have. And because we’re doing the gymnastics, we don’t see that we already have it.”

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1. “It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.”

— Byron Katie

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2. “Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.”

— Byron Katie

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3. “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”

— Byron Katie

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4. “Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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6. “Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.”

— Byron Katie

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7. “Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?”

— Byron Katie

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8. “Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.”

— Byron Katie

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9. “If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.”

— Byron Katie

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10. “The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.”

— Byron Katie

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11. “If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.”

— Byron Katie

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12. “Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.”

— Byron Katie

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13. “If you argue against reality you will suffer.”

— Byron Katie

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14. “Reality is always kinder than your thinking.”

— Byron Katie

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15. “When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.”

— Byron Katie

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16. “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

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17. “Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.”

— Byron Katie

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18. “I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.”

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19. “The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.”

— Byron Katie

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20. “Nothing ever goes wrong in life.”

— Byron Katie

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21. “The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.”

— Byron Katie

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22. “Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.”

— Byron Katie

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23. “Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.”

— Byron Katie

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24. “The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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26. “The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.”

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27. “Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.”

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28. “I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.”

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29. “Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.”

— Byron Katie

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30. “Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.”

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31. “A thought is harmless unless we believe it.”

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32. “Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.”

— Byron Katie

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33. “The last story: God is everything, God is good.”

— Byron Katie

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34. “If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.”

— Byron Katie

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37. “Defense is the first act of war.”

— Byron Katie

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38. “Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.”

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39. “When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it’s unlimited. There’s nothing you cannot do.”

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40. “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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41. “When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.”

— Byron Katie

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42. “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.”

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43. “It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.”

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44. “We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.”

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45. “To argue with reality is to argue with God.”

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46. “Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.”

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47. “I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.”

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48. “There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.”

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49. “You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.”

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50. “Insanity is arguing with reality.”

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