When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
BYRON KATIEWhen safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.
BYRON KATIEThe mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.
BYRON KATIEMind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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 KATIEWhen we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
BYRON KATIEEvery mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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 KATIEIt doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.
BYRON KATIEThe only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
BYRON KATIEIf you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
BYRON KATIEThe pain shows you what’s left to investigate.
BYRON KATIEUntil we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
BYRON KATIEIf I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
BYRON KATIEWe cannot see what we don’t believe.
BYRON KATIEI stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
BYRON KATIEWhen a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
BYRON KATIE