Byron Katie Quotes

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

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

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

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

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

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

My experience is the opposite.

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.

I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

My life is a contribution.

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.

It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.