Byron Katie Quotes

There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

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.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.

Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.

Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

Every mind deserves to be free.

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

Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.

You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.

All sadness is a tantrum.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.

The apparent craziness of the world, like everything else, is a gift that we can use to set our minds free.

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.