Emerson instructed us to "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul."
Following Emerson's guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. These quotes I draw from Loving What Is and other wisdom by Byron Katie.
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The Inquiry
1. Is it true?
2. Can I absolutely know that it’s true?
3. How do I react when I think that thought?
4. Who would I be without the thought
and then
Turn it around.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on:
The Work, Inquiry
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We don’t attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on:
The Moment, Katie, Moment, Believe, People
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation—from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on:
Appreciation, Love, Katie
The Work is merely four questions; it’s not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It’s nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you’ve got ad enhance it. Any religion you have—they’ll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they’ll burn up anything that isn’t true for you. They’ll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on:
Questions, Katie, Work, Joy, Religion, Will, Question, The Work
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
Self-Development Quotes on:
Katie, Mind, Suffer, Perfect, Time, Thought, Believe
If you want reality to be different than what it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on:
Teach, Katie, Rent, Try
I realized that it’s insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It’s blowing!
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on:
Katie, Time, Now, Should, Win
The Work reveals that what you think shouldn’t have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn’t mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don’t know how to stop.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on:
Change, Think, Thinking, Struggle, Katie, Stop, Better, Work, Resistance, World, Now, Should, Cause, Children, The Work
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on:
Action, Fear, Sin, Katie, Stop, Act, Kind, Fearless, Become, Simple
I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God’s. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, “You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself,” I am in your business. When I’m worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God’s business. If I am mentally in your business or in God’s business, the effect is separation.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on:
Business, God, Think, War, Sin, Katie, Stress, Kind, Better, Universe, Time, Should, Will, Effect, Earth, Happy
To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on:
Business, Fear, Love, Think, Sin, Anxiety, Tension, Katie, Work, Best, Try, Now, Problem, Right, Problems
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 means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on:
Belief, Thoughts, Katie, Suffering, Suffer, Attachment, Thought, Cause, Believe
One day I noticed that I wasn’t breathing—I was being breathed.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on:
Breathe, Katie, Breath, Breathing
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 my thoughts—I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on:
Thoughts, Think, Thinking, Katie, Control, Understand, Thought, People
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on:
Katie
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 the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You’ll never know until you inquire.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on:
Truth, War, Katie, Dream, Work, Doing, Time, World, Examine, Now, Become, Aware, Nightmare, The Work
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on:
Experience, Katie, Stress, Thought, Cause, Feel
Rather than understand the original cause—a thought—we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on:
Change, Katie, Stress, Feelings, Understand, Try, Thought, Cause, Feel
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on:
Katie, Dream, Stress, Passion, Compassion, Feel
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 hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.
~ Byron Katie Quotes
from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on:
Decide, Katie, Suffering, Fire, Suffer, Understand, Thought, Cause, Inquiry
“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books/seminars/life lessons. These ones I pulled from Loving What Is
Byron Katie : Whose Business Are You In?
Byron Katie : Compassionate Alarm Clocks
Byron Katie : Lint on a Projector's Lens
Byron Katie : Don't Argue with Reality
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