Top 453 Quotes & Sayings by Byron Katie - Page 4

When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.

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.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

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.

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.

The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

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

I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.

If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

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

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it.

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

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.

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

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

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

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

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.

Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first

It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.

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.

To argue with reality is to argue with God

If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself

One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.