If you want something to be different than it is, you might as well teach a cat to bark. You can try and try, and in the end the cat will look up at you and say, "Meow."
Wanting something to be different than it is is hopeless. ¨
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal. They're like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling.
Thoughts arise like that, and we can make friends with them.
Would you argue with a raindrop?
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It’s a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire."
We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling.
And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.
Every story, every thing is God: reality. It apparently emerges from out of Itself and appears as a life. It lives forever within the story, until the story ends. From out of Itself I appeared as my story, until the questions brought me home.
We buy a home for our children, for our bodies; we get a garage for our car; we have dog houses for our dogs; but we won't give the mind a home. And we treat it like an outcast. We shame it and blame it and shame it again. But if you let the mind ask its questions, then the heart will rise with the answer. And "rising" is just a metaphor.
The heart will reveal the answer, and the mind can finally rest at home in the heart and come to see that it and the heart are one. That's what these four questions are about.
The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around; undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
Until we know that death is equal to life, and that it comes in its own sweet way, perfectly, we're going to take on the role of God without the awareness of it, and it's always going to hurt. In other words, whenever you mentally oppose what is, you're going to experience sadness and apparent separation. There's no sadness without the story. What is is. You are it. You're not saving anyone; you're not killing anyone. The world doesn't depend on you.
--Byron Katie
The Work of Byron Katie is a deeply transformative process of inquiry that is helping people around the world approach their problems from a perspective of clarity and inner peace.
http://www.thework.com/WhatIsTheWork.asp
Night night everyone Pax Vobsicum (latin for "peace be with you" it sounds so magical in Latin 
D