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“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
― Osho

“In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don’t feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“The teacher you need is the person you're living with.”
― Byron Katie, A Friendly Universe: Sayings to Inspire and Challenge You

“When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.”
― Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

“You’re just suffering from the belief that there’s something missing from your life. In reality, you always have what you need.”
― Byron Katie, Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie