Byron Katie Quotes
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them
The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.
No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.
When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
