Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
BYRON KATIEDon’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.
BYRON KATIEIf people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified – as a body, as a you.
BYRON KATIEYou’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
BYRON KATIEPut your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
BYRON KATIEUntil 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 KATIEI have had the privilege of losing everything.
BYRON KATIEThe best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
BYRON KATIENothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.
BYRON KATIEThoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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 KATIEYou move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
BYRON KATIEThere’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.
BYRON KATIESo there’s only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That’s why I say, “Who cares if you’re enlightened forever?”
BYRON KATIEWhen you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
BYRON KATIEI am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
BYRON KATIEWe do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
BYRON KATIE