Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there! — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying! — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question. — 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
So 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 Katie Copy Share Image
If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen." — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If our stressful thoughts aren't true, what does that leave? It leaves, "I am loveable" - the very thing I could never… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God's. Much of our stress comes from mentally… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand,… — 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
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If… — 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
