I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
BYRON KATIEI didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
BYRON KATIEWe don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
BYRON KATIEAfter you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”
BYRON KATIEThis is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
BYRON KATIEWhat is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.
BYRON KATIEWhenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future.
BYRON KATIELook at your life without the thought “Something terrible is going to happen.”
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 KATIEThinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.
BYRON KATIEEveryone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
BYRON KATIEWhen we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
BYRON KATIEAny stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
BYRON KATIESince the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
BYRON KATIEWhen you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
BYRON KATIEThe only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
BYRON KATIEI see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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