Beth

“Dying is everything they were looking for in life.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“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.” Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, “Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking right now. You’re living in a story that isn’t true for you.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“Sadness is always a sign that you’re believing a stressful thought that isn’t true for you. It’s a constriction, and it feels bad. Conventional wisdom says differently, but the truth is that sadness isn’t rational, it isn’t a natural response, and it can’t ever help you. It just indicates the loss of reality, the loss of the awareness of love. Sadness is the war with what is. It’s a tantrum. You can experience it only when you’re arguing with God. When the mind is clear, there isn’t any sadness. There can’t be.”
― Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

“He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality.”
― José Ortega y Gasset