Byron Katie Quotes

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

Lack of understanding is always painful.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

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

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.

That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.

I have had the privilege of losing everything.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

To argue with reality is to argue with God

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.