If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
BYRON KATIEIf you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
BYRON KATIEGod, 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 KATIEOur parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
BYRON KATIEYou are the effect of your story, that’s all.
BYRON KATIEDon’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
BYRON KATIEYou’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
BYRON KATIEThe whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
BYRON KATIEPlacing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
BYRON KATIEThe miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.
BYRON KATIEQuestioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true.
BYRON KATIEThe whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.
BYRON KATIEYou don’t get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?
BYRON KATIEWhen we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
BYRON KATIEI came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
BYRON KATIEIf you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it.
BYRON KATIEWe do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
BYRON KATIE