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 KATIEEvery stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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I’m most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
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It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That’s your job.
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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Look at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
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I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
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I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.
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Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
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It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
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There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it. It’s just easier if you do.
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We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
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