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Your mind is not your friend, it is your servant.

~ Unknown Quotes
Self-Development Quotes on: Mind

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Do you know anyone who hasn’t changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We’re all like that, constantly changing. It’s simply honest to report that you’ve changed your mind when you have. When you’re afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that’s where you become confused.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on: Change, Think, Katie, Mind, Fire, Now, Will, Become, Earth, People

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I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn’t shift until it does, and when it does shift, it’s right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can’t be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Katie, Mind, Understand, Time, Right, People, Shift

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In reality, there is no such thing as a “should” or a “shouldn’t.” These are only thoughts that we impose onto reality. The mind is like a carpenter’s level. When the bubble is off to one side—“It shouldn’t be raining”—we can know that the mind is caught in its thinking. When the bubble is right in the middle—“It’s raining”—we can know that the surface level and the mind is accepting reality as it is. Without the “should” and “shouldn’t,” we can see reality as it is, and this leaves us free to act efficiently, clearly, and sanely. Asking “What’s the reality of it?” can help bring the mind out of its story, back into the real world.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on: Thoughts, Think, Thinking, Katie, Act, Mind, Skin, Accept, World, Now, Right, Thought, Should

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I’ll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on: War, Katie, Yin, New, Mind, Suffer

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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 arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on: Thoughts, Katie, Stress, New, Mind, Discover, Try, Age, Thought, Language

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

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on: Katie, Mind, Understand

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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on: Katie, Stop, Act, Mind, Light, Thought

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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 Quotes from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on: Change, Think, War, Sin, Katie, Yin, Work, Suffering, Mind, Suffer, Give, Try, Joy, Time, World, Beginning, Problem, Age, Cause, Happy, People, The Work

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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on: Katie, Mind, Suffer, Perfect, Time, Thought, Believe

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