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Stories Quotes by Byron Katie
- Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy…
- 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…
- 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…
- Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is…
- 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…
- The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
- Love is who we are without our stories.
- When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often…
- Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after…
- The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
- Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our…
- Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.
- 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…
- Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
- The last story: God is everything, God is good.
- Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
- Gratitude is what we are without a story.
- When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in…
- We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
- Who would you be without your story?
- When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in…
- Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
- You are the effect of your story, that's all.
- It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.
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