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“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing has ever happened that didn’t need to happen."
~Byron Katie

Don't regret your past... it made you who you are today.
Don't worry about your future... you miss out living this day.
Live in the moment.
Accept the timing of the ebb and flow of your day to day life.
Whatever is meant to be, will happen... hold on for the ride and fly! :)

Byron Katie Quotes:

“It's not your job to like me - it's mine”
― Byron Katie

tags: friendship , relationships

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“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.”
― Byron Katie

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“Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them”
― Byron Katie

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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, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

tags: suffering , thinking , victim

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“All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.”
― Byron Katie

tags: inspirational , self-help

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“The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.”
― Byron Katie

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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, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

tags: attachment , suffering , thinking , thought , truth

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“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.”
― Byron Katie

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“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”
― Byron Katie

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“How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval? Do you live an inauthentic life because you can't bear the thought that they might disapprove of you? Do you try to figure out how they would like you to be, and then try to become that, like a chameleon? In fact, you never really get their love. You turn into someone you aren't, and then when they say "I love you," you can't believe it, because they're loving a facade. They're loving someone who doesn't even exist, the person you're pretending to be. It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it, you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.”
― Byron Katie

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“Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.”
― Byron Katie

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“all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear”
― Byron Katie, Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie

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“When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”
― Byron Katie

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“Don't believe every thing you think.”
― Byron Katie

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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, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

tags: suffering , thought , understanding

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“Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.”
― Byron Katie

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“I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

tags: buddhism , psychology

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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.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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“When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.”
― Byron Katie

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“Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing has ever happened that didn't need to happen.”
― Byron Katie

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“Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.”
― Byron Katie

tags: mind , projection , suffering , thought

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“You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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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.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

tags: life

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“Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.”
― Byron Katie, On Work And Money

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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.”
― Byron Katie

tags: happiness , self-enquiry

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“There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.”
― Byron Katie

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“An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.”
― Byron Katie

tags: inspirational , self-enquiry

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Byron Katie ~ Author profile

Born December 06, 1942 in The United States

http://www.thework.com/index.asp

Genre Health, Mind & Body

Byron Kathleen Mitchell (née Reid), better known as Byron Katie, born December 6, 1942, is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie" or simply as "The Work."

Byron Kathleen Reid (or "Katie," as she is often called) became severely depressed in her early thirties. She was a businesswoman and mother who lived in Barstow, a small town in the high desert of southern California. According to Katie, for nearly a decade she spiralled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and constant thoughts of suicide; for the last two years she was often unable to leave her bedroom. Then, one morning in February 1986, while in a halfway house for women with eating disorders, she experienced a life-changing realization. She called it “waking up to reality.” In that moment of enlightenment, she says,

"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."

According to journalist Allison Adato, soon afterwards people started seeking Katie out and asking how they could find the freedom that they saw in her. People from her town, and eventually from elsewhere, came to meet her, and some to even live with her.

Katie is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. She is married to the writer and translator Stephen Mitchell, who co-wrote her first book, Loving What Is and her third book, A Thousand Names for Joy.

Katie calls her method of self-inquiry "The Work." She describes it as an embodiment, in words, of the wordless questioning that had woken up in her on that February morning. Adato further writes that as reports spread about the transformations people felt they were experiencing through The Work, Katie was invited to present it publicly elsewhere in California, then throughout the United States, and eventually in Europe and across the world. She has taught her method to people at free public events, in prisons, hospitals, churches, corporations, shelters for survivors of domestic violence, universities and schools, at weekend intensives, and at her nine-day "School for The Work."

Bibliography

* Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
* I Need Your Love - Is That True? How to Stop Seeking Love, Appreciation, and Approval and Start Finding Them Instead
* A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
* Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie
* Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie
* Tiger-Tiger, Is It True?