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
Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists… — 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 Image
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 Image
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
