If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying! — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now? — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“In reality, the pain we feel about a past event is created in the present,” — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing has ever happened that didn't need to happen.” — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification. — Byron Katie Copy Share
People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when… — Byron Katie Copy Share
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing. — Byron Katie Copy Share
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in.… — Byron Katie Copy Share
You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises… — Byron Katie Copy Share
“Your story is your identity, and you’d do almost anything to prove that it’s true. Inquiry into self is the only thing that has… — Byron Katie Copy Share
It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us. — Byron Katie Copy Share
I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or… — Byron Katie Copy Share
Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does. — Byron Katie Copy Share
“Reality doesn’t wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on it. Gary:” — Byron Katie Copy Share
You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought… — Byron Katie Copy Share
