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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
Self-Development Quotes on: Change, Think, Katie, Mind, Fire, Now, Will, Become, Earth, People

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God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God’s intention: It’s exactly what is in every moment.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on: God, Intent, Katie, Act, Intention, Now, Moment

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Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It’s the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They’re not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on: Goals, Love, Truth, Katie, Work, Suffering, Doing, Suffer, Attachment, Peace, Accept, World, Now, Freedom, Right, Effect, Goal, The Work

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In the fall, you don’t grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, “Isn’t it beautiful!” Well, we’re the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It’s all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It’s beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It’s life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on: Katie, Yin, Mistake, Life, Giving, Fall, Give, Now, Become, Cause, Win, Dying

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It’s only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on: Katie, Now, Win

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That’s the purpose of stress. It’s a friend. It’s an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it’s time to do The Work.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on: Purpose, Katie, Stress, Work, Friend, Time, Now, The Work

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What I call “doing the dishes” is the practice of loving the task in front of you. Your inner voice guides you all day long to do simple things such as brush your teeth, drive to work, call your friend, or do the dishes. Even though it’s just another story, it’s a very short story, and when you follow the direction of the voice, the story ends. We are really alive when we live as simply as that—open, waiting, trusting, and loving to do what appears in front of us now…What we need to do unfolds before us, always—doing the dishes, paying the bills, picking up the children’s socks, brushing our teeth. We never receive more than we can handle, and there is always just one thing to do. Whether you have ten dollars or ten million dollars, life never gets more difficult than that.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on: Live, Million Dollars, Katie, Act, Yin, Follow, Work, Trust, Life, Rust, Doing, Friend, Practice, Receive, Now, Bills, Simple, Children

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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 lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on: Appreciation, Fear, Happiness, Live, Katie, Gratitude, Act, Friend, Fearless, Breath, Now, Ready, Right, Become, Happy, People

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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
Self-Development Quotes on: Thoughts, Think, Thinking, Katie, Act, Mind, Skin, Accept, World, Now, Right, Thought, Should