Byron Katie Quotes

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

Sadness isn't a natural response.

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

I'm the one I need to work with.

Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.

I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to change anything, and not to do positive thinking at all.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do.

Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!

If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

Nothing ever goes wrong in life.

I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.

We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.

Freedom is our birthright.

I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.

I like to say understanding is the power.

Insanity is arguing with reality.

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

Love is who we are without our stories.

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.

Joy is a natural way of being.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.

I like to say it was born out of laughter.

If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.

The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.

I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.

Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one.

It takes only one person to have a successful relationship.

I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

The world begins with what we believe.

The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.

There is no mistake in nature.

When you run in fear, it's square into the wall.

No one can give you freedom but you.