Byron Katie Quotes

When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business.

There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.

If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

Everything happens for me, not to me.

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

'I don't know' is my favorite position.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

We cannot see what we don't believe.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

Who would you be without your story?

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.

That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.

Would you rather be right or free?