You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Pain, Give
As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Suffering, Think, Cause
To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Sin, Work, Problems, Fear, Try, Business, Best, Think, Love, Right, Now, Anxiety
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Love
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.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Work, Now, Purpose, Friend, Stress, Time
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.
—Byron Katie
Topics: God, Now, Act
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.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Yin, Fear, Peace, Live, Earth, Teach, Try
Everything happens for me, not to me.
—Byron Katie
Lack of understanding is always painful.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Pain
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
—Byron Katie
Topics: World, Perception
There is no thought or situation that you can’t put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Freedom, Rent, Thought
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They’re all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Thought, Thoughts, New, Mind, Stress, Try, Discover, Age, Language
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you’re looking for.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Give
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Right, Experience, Now, Teach, People
It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Pain, Good
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
—Byron Katie
Who would you be if you didn’t believe this thought?
—Byron Katie
Topics: Thought, Believe
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.
—Byron Katie
Topics: War, Friends, Act, Suffering, Feelings, Feel, Friend, Experience
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It’s the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They’re not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Now, World, Doing, Goal, Goals, Truth, Freedom, Attachment, Love, Work, Peace, Suffering, Right
Would you rather be right or free?
—Byron Katie
Topics: Right
We don’t attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Believe, People
If you want reality to be different than what it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Rent, Try, Teach
It’s only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Now, Win
If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I’m insane.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Think, Sin, Problems
Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Mind
It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Family, Love, Believe, Appreciation
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Thoughts, Belief, Attachment, Cause, Thought, Believe, Suffering
The Work is: Judge your neighbor, write it down, ask four questions, turn it around. That’s it. Simple stuff.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Questions, Work
You’re either attaching to your thoughts or inquiring. There’s no other choice.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Thought, Thoughts, Choice
The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it’s understood.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Become, Laughter
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