I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
BYRON KATIEI stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.
BYRON KATIEYou can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
BYRON KATIELove is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.
BYRON KATIEIf you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
BYRON KATIEWhen we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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 KATIEWhen we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
BYRON KATIEThought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
BYRON KATIEIf you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
BYRON KATIEEveryone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
BYRON KATIEEvery mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
BYRON KATIEYou can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
BYRON KATIEIf our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
BYRON KATIEI have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there’s a thought that isn’t true for us.
BYRON KATIEWhen you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
BYRON KATIEYour nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don’t feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
BYRON KATIE