After 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 KATIEWhat you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
More Byron Katie Quotes
-
-
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
BYRON KATIE -
When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
BYRON KATIE -
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
BYRON KATIE -
It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
BYRON KATIE -
If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
BYRON KATIE -
We may appear to be mean but we’re really only frightened.
BYRON KATIE -
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
BYRON KATIE -
Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.
BYRON KATIE -
Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.
BYRON KATIE -
It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
BYRON KATIE -
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
BYRON KATIE -
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
BYRON KATIE -
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
BYRON KATIE -
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
BYRON KATIE -
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
BYRON KATIE