Byron Katie Quotes

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

If our stressful thoughts aren't true, what does that leave? It leaves, "I am loveable" - the very thing I could never make myself believe, because "I'm unloveable" overrides it when the chips are down.

The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

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.

I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in.

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

The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.

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

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

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

Every mind deserves to be free.

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

No one can give you freedom but you.

As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

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

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can

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

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

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.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

Lack of understanding is always painful.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

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.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God's. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I'm worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's business, the effect is separation.

Even breathing is a contribution.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

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

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it.

The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

I like to say it was born out of laughter.

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.

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

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

War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.

The world begins with what we believe.