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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

Byron Katie

Pain, Causes, Influence

Twitter post from Feb 20, 2010

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

Byron Katie

Hurt, Pain, Lying

Byron Katie (2007). “Question Your Thinking, Change The World”, p.177, Hay House, Inc

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

Byron Katie

Inspirational, Pain, Self

Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.162, Random House

When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

Byron Katie

Pain, Moving, Focus

"Doing the Work". Interview with Melissa Bond, www.catalystmagazine.net. April 30, 2007.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

Byron Katie

Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

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

Byron Katie

Inspirational, Jobs, Pain

Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.42, Random House

Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

Byron Katie

Inspirational, Pain, Fear