When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
BYRON KATIEWhen you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
BYRON KATIEReality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
BYRON KATIERealizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
BYRON KATIELife 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.
BYRON KATIEWe suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
BYRON KATIEEvery mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
BYRON KATIEYour suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
BYRON KATIEIf you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
BYRON KATIENothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
BYRON KATIEWhen we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
BYRON KATIEYou’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
BYRON KATIEThe nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
BYRON KATIENothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
BYRON KATIEWhen you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
BYRON KATIEEvery moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
BYRON KATIEI stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
BYRON KATIE