I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
BYRON KATIEI believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
BYRON KATIEYou might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
BYRON KATIEWhen you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
BYRON KATIEYou either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.
BYRON KATIEThe person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
BYRON KATIEThat’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
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 KATIEThere’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
BYRON KATIEEvery stressful thought is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn’t be happening. I shouldn’t be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn’t fair.
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 KATIEStress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’re attached to something not true for you.
BYRON KATIEThe only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.
BYRON KATIETo 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 KATIENo one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
BYRON KATIE