When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
BYRON KATIEEverything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.
More Byron Katie Quotes
-
-
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
BYRON KATIE -
For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.
BYRON KATIE -
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
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 -
The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
BYRON KATIE -
Without an uninvestigated story, there’s only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that’s revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
BYRON KATIE -
You are the effect of your story, that’s all.
BYRON KATIE -
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
BYRON KATIE -
To 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 KATIE -
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
BYRON KATIE -
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
BYRON KATIE -
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
BYRON KATIE -
The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
BYRON KATIE -
It’s quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.
BYRON KATIE -
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
BYRON KATIE