Byron Katie Quotes
Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.
When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.
If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.
If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!
I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.
It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.
Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough.
The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.
Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.
I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.
The ultimate and dearest - and, again, only - relationship we have is the relationship we have with our thoughts.
When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.
I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.
Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.
The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?
You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.
Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
