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Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
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The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
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Love what is.
- Byron Katie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
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The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
The things that have acquired unity are these:
Heaven by unity has become clear;
Earth by unity has become steady;
The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;
The Valley by unity has become full;
All things by unity have come into existence.
- Lao Tzu
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
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