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Causes Quotes by Byron Katie
- Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
- It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.
- Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s…
- It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.
- Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
- When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
- Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
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