Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
BYRON KATIELife just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
More Byron Katie Quotes
-
-
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
BYRON KATIE -
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 -
My life is a contribution.
BYRON KATIE -
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
BYRON KATIE -
Placing 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 KATIE -
There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
BYRON KATIE -
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
BYRON KATIE -
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 -
Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
BYRON KATIE -
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
BYRON KATIE -
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
BYRON KATIE -
The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
BYRON KATIE -
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
BYRON KATIE -
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
BYRON KATIE -
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
BYRON KATIE -
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
BYRON KATIE -
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
BYRON KATIE -
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
BYRON KATIE -
You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
BYRON KATIE -
It’s difficult to seek other people’s love. It’s deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.
BYRON KATIE -
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
BYRON KATIE -
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
BYRON KATIE -
Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
BYRON KATIE -
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
BYRON KATIE -
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
BYRON KATIE -
When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.
BYRON KATIE