The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
BYRON KATIEThe only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
BYRON KATIENothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
BYRON KATIEReality is always kinder than your thinking.
BYRON KATIEWho would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?
BYRON KATIEWhen they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
BYRON KATIEYou’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
BYRON KATIEIt’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.
BYRON KATIEThoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
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 KATIEWe are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
BYRON KATIEWho would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
BYRON KATIEThe ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
BYRON KATIEWhen you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you’re mentally out of your business.
BYRON KATIEIf you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
BYRON KATIEBottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
BYRON KATIEPut your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
BYRON KATIE