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Byron Katie Quotes - Page 16

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Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Life Changing, Believe, Cells

"The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.

Believe, Interesting, World

Source: rayhemachandra.com

When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

War, Stress, Break Out

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

Stress, Moving, Violence

I like to say understanding is the power.

Understanding

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Insanity is arguing with reality.

Reality, Insanity, Arguing

Love is who we are without our stories.

Love, Marriage, Who We Are

No one can give you freedom but you.

Giving, Freedom Of Expression

You are what exists before all stories.

Stories, Katie

Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

Home, Understanding, Mind

What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.

World, Events, Natural

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Joy is a natural way of being.

Joy, Way, Natural

Source: rayhemachandra.com

The world isn't what I've believed it to be, and I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

World

Source: rayhemachandra.com

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

Mind

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Stress never feels as natural as peace does

Stress, Doe, Natural

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"

Peace, People, Action

"Stop Second Guessing Yourself". Interview, www.eomega.org. March 18, 2015.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

Morning, Sleep, Bed

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

Giving, Suffering, Causes

Twitter post from Mar 05, 2013

I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.

Expression, Break Through, Mind

Source: rayhemachandra.com

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

Perfect, Mind, World

"Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, 2002.

Ultimately, I am all I can know.

Knows, I Can

Twitter post from Apr 14, 2011

When I believed my thoughts I suffered.

My Thoughts

Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.

Son, Life Is, Terror

Source: rayhemachandra.com

I like to say it was born out of laughter.

Laughter, Born

Source: rayhemachandra.com

The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.

Believe, World, Projection

Source: rayhemachandra.com

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