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Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life QUOTES

41 " When you ask “Is it true?” for example, you may not really want to know. It could be that you’d rather stay with your statement than dive into the unknown. Blocking means rushing the process and answering with your conscious mind before the gentler polarity of mind (I call it “the heart”) can answer. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

42 " Your story is your identity, and you’d do almost anything to prove that it’s true. Inquiry into self is the only thing that has the power to penetrate such ancient concepts. Even "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

43 " I wasn’t always able to live the advice that I so generously held out for others to live. When I realized this, I found myself on equal ground with the people I had judged. I saw that my philosophy wasn’t so easy for any of us to live. I saw that we’re all doing the best we can. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

44 " To make amends” means to right the perceived wrong. What I call “living amends” is more far-reaching. It applies not only to one particular incident but to all future incidents of that kind. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

45 " Reality doesn’t wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on it. Gary: "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

46 " When you think that people should be kind to you, the reverse is true: You should be kind to them and to yourself "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

47 " Nothing external can disturb us. We suffer only when we want things to be different from what they are. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

48 " Everything happens for me, not to me. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

49 " El mundo es tu percepción de él. Lo interior y lo exterior siempre se corresponden: el uno refleja al otro. El mundo es el reflejo de tu mente. Si experimentas caos y confusión en tu interior, tu mundo exterior tiene que reflejarlo. Tienes que ver lo que crees, porque eres el pensador confundido que mira hacia fuera y se ve a sí mismo. Eres el intérprete de todo, y si eres caótico, lo que oyes y lo que ves tiene que ser un caos. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

50 " The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. Baruch Spinoza "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

51 " A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

52 " Katie: Yes. Keep it simple, and just turn it around. Charles: I need Deborah to … Katie: “I need me …” Charles: I need me to love myself as I am, warts and all. I haven’t been loving myself that way. But I’m starting to. Katie: And it’s the story you tell of the wart that keeps you from loving it. The wart just waits for a sane mind to see it clearly. It doesn’t do any harm. It’s just there like … like a leaf on a tree. You don’t argue with a leaf and say, “Yo! Let’s talk. Look at your shape. You need to do something about it. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

53 " El sufrimiento es una alarma natural que nos alerta de que nos estamos apegando a un pensamiento; cuando no escuchamos, llegamos a aceptar ese sufrimiento como una parte inevitable de la vida, pero no lo es. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

54 " En el otoño, no te afliges porque las hojas se caen y se mueren. Dices: «¡Qué bonito!». Bueno, nosotros somos iguales. Hay estaciones. Todos nos caemos más tarde o más temprano. Todo es muy bonito. Y si no investigamos, nuestros conceptos nos impiden darnos cuenta de ello. Es bonito ser una hoja, nacer, caer, dejar paso a lo que sigue, convertirse en alimento para las raíces. Es la vida, siempre cambiando de forma y siempre entregándose por entero. Todos hacemos nuestra parte. No hay error. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

55 " El sufrimiento está causado por un apego a una creencia profundamente fijada. Es un estado en el que se produce un apego ciego a algo que uno cree que es verdad. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

56 " The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match—they are reflections of each other. "

― Byron Katie , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

57 " Para entender tu verdadera naturaleza, debes esperar el momento y las condiciones apropiadas. Cuando ese momento llega, te despiertas como si fuese de un sueño. Comprendes que lo que has descubierto te pertenece y que no proviene de ningún lugar externo. Aforismo budista "

― Stephen Mitchell , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

58 " Considerando que, con todo el odio expulsado fuera [la mente] su inocencia radical recupera y descubre por fin que por sí misma es capaz de deleitarse, de apaciguarse, de amedrentarse, y que su propia y dulce voluntad es la voluntad del cielo. "

― Stephen Mitchell , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

59 " Considerando que, con todo el odio expulsado fuera [la mente] su inocencia radical recupera y descubre por fin que por sí misma es capaz de deleitarse, de apaciguarse, de amedrentarse, y que su propia y dulce voluntad es la voluntad del cielo. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS "

― Stephen Mitchell , Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life