Byron Katie Quotes About Stress
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When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought
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Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
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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."
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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Stress never feels as natural as peace does
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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.
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Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
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When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
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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.
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