"Loving What Is" by Byron Katie
"I can find 3 kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and God's. (For me, God means "reality". Reality is God because it rules. Anything that's out of my control, your control, and everyone else's control - I call that God's business.)
Much of our stress comes from living out of our own business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I am worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's business, the effect is separation. I noticed this early in 1986. When I mentally went into my mother's business, for example, with a thought like "My mother should understand me," I immediately experienced a feeling of loneliness. And I realized that every time in my life that I had felt hurt or lonely, I had been in someone else's business.
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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety and fear. Do you know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve your problems for you.
If you understand the 3 kinds of business enough to stay in your own business, it could free your life in a way that you can't even imagine. The next time you are feeling stress or discomfort, ask yourself whose business you're in mentally, and you may burst out laughing! That question can bring you back to yourself. And you may come to see that you've never really been present, that you've been mentally living in other people's business all your life.
And if you practice it for a while, you may come to see that you don't have any business either and that your life runs perfectly well on its own."
Byron Katie
"Loving What Is"
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