Byron Katie Quotes About Stress

Quotes about: Stress

• 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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  Freedom, Stress, Kind

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.330, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

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  Positive, Freedom, Stress

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2011

• 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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  Stress, Doe, Like You

• 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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  Jobs, Business, War

• Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

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  Inspirational, Stress, Thinking

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2013

• 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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  Stress, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

• Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

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  Stress, Feelings, Trying

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.6, Random House

• 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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  Dream, Stress, Feelings

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.6, Random House

• 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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  Stress, Unjust, Variation

• Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

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  Stress, Moving, Violence

• 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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  War, Stress, Break Out

• 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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  Stress, Alarms, Purpose

• 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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  Country, Stress, Mind

• Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

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  Pain, Stress, Self

• Stress never feels as natural as peace does

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  Stress, Doe, Natural

• Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

  Byron Katie

  Stress, Believe, Alarms

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