#464 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Karma

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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

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I’m a lover of reality, not because I’m a spiritual woman, but because it hurts when I argue with what is. And I notice that I lose, 100 percent of the time.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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Some of us are returning to sanity, because we’re tired of the pain. We’re in a hurry. No time to mess around.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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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

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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

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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.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is

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