Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie

realize I'm making it sound like we're all crazy, but that's because we kind of are.     Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else's beliefs. Until

Success is not about your circumstances, it's about who you're being.

The person you spend the most time with affects you the most. And the person you spend the most time with is . . . you. Hence, what you tell yourself on a regular basis is muy importante.

Changing your habits and your boundaries takes courage, audacity, and a whole lot of self-love.

when you decide to upgrade your income and standard of living, it's important to put yourself in the new environment you're intent on creating for yourself as best you can: It not only jars you out of your old way of thinking, believing, and being, but it gives the new environment an opportunity to start having an effect on you and to start becoming your new idea of normal instead of As if! Me?

WHO DO I NEED TO BE FOR THIS SITUATION NOT TO BOTHER ME?

We're so deeply wrapped up in our stories—I don't have the money, I'm not good enough, I can't quit my job, I'm lazy, I have bad hair—trudging through life with our heads down, clinging to our false beliefs like lifeboats full of doo-doo, that we prevent ourselves from seeing the literally infinite sea of possibilities and opportunities surrounding us at every single moment.

It's sort of like not being able to enjoy sitting on your front porch anymore because it totally reeks of something foul out there. You

these are the beliefs that you created yourself, it's about releasing the energy inside you, not about involving other people in your therapy session.

Our thoughts become our words, our words become our beliefs, our beliefs become our habits, and our habits become our realities.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner