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.
Byron KatieThinking 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.
Byron KatieMy experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.
Byron KatieIf I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
Byron KatieSo, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children.
Byron Katie