Byron Katie Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

“I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.”

“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.”

“In reality, the pain we feel about a past event is created in the present.”

“Isn’t it marvelous to discover that you’re the one you’ve been waiting for? That you are your own freedom?”

“My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.”

“Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.”

“Self-realization is the sweetest thing. It shows us how we are fully responsible for ourselves, and that is where we find our freedom.”

“That’s what inquiry is for, to break through stressful mythology. ”

“This is true freedom: a mind that is no longer deceived by itself.”

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

“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”

“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.”