Byron Katie Quotes & Sayings

#1. The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Byron Katie

#2. Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Byron Katie

#3. How do I know that I don't need what
I want? I don't have it.

Byron Katie

#4. Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

Byron Katie

#5. Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Byron Katie

#6. My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Byron Katie

#7. Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Byron Katie

#8. All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Byron Katie

#9. Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Byron Katie

#10. That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

Byron Katie

#11. I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

Byron Katie

#12. The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

Byron Katie

#13. Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.

Byron Katie

#14. 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

#15. Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Byron Katie

#16. Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination
ev en you.

Byron Katie

#17. Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#19. Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

Byron Katie

#20. Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

Byron Katie

#21. Until we know that death is equal to
life, we live in fear.

Byron Katie

#22. Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

Byron Katie

#23. If you think he's supposed to be different from what he is, you don't love him. In that moment you love who he's going to be when you're through manipulating him. He is a throwaway until he matches your image of him.

Byron Katie

#24. 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

#25. Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

Byron Katie

#26. Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

Byron Katie

#27. Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

Byron Katie

#28. We never make a decision. When the
time is right, the decision makes itself.

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#30. It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.

Byron Katie

#31. If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.

Byron Katie

#32. The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

Byron Katie

#33. 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

#34. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#36. The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

Byron Katie

#37. There is no mistake in nature.

Byron Katie

#38. What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind

Byron Katie

#39. Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is - it's over.

Byron Katie

#40. If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#42. 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

#43. The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

Byron Katie

#44. You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.

Byron Katie

#45. Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

Byron Katie

#46. The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.

Byron Katie

#47. The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Byron Katie

#48. Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

Byron Katie

#49. Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

Byron Katie

#50. When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#52. There's only one thing harder than accepting this, and that is not accepting it.

Byron Katie

#53. You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

Byron Katie

#54. Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

Byron Katie

#55. 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.

Byron Katie

#56. I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

Byron Katie

#57. There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Byron Katie

#58. The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

Byron Katie

#59. Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#61. I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

Byron Katie

#62. The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives.

Byron Katie

#63. 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

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

Byron Katie

#65. Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

Byron Katie

#66. 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.

Byron Katie

#67. When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

Byron Katie

#68. To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

Byron Katie

#69. Everything happens for me, not to me.

Byron Katie

#70. You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.

Byron Katie

#71. If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

Byron Katie

#72. We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.

Byron Katie

#73. 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

#74. If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

Byron Katie

#75. No one has ever been angry at
another human being-we're only angry at
our story of them.

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#77. Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

Byron Katie

#78. We say to others only what we need to hear

Byron Katie

#79. Freedom is our birthright.

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#81. Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.

Byron Katie

#82. Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

Byron Katie

#83. Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

#86. It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

Byron Katie

#87. I am the perpretor of my suffering - but only all of it.

Byron Katie

#88. We fear only what we haven't understood.

Byron Katie

#89. 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.

Byron Katie

#90. The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first

Byron Katie

#91. Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

Byron Katie

#92. What you're believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

Byron Katie

#93. It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

Byron Katie

#94. I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

Byron Katie