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
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now? — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true. — 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
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut:… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
It's very benign, it seems, to think, "There's a tree." In fact, it's a very beautiful thought. If someone chops down all… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you question your thoughts about when your son is not healthy, you come to see that you're the only one you're… — 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
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
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
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
Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
When people are talking about manifesting, we can say, "I want a car, I want a car, I want a car," but… — 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
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
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
If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there! — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at… — 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 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 you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now. — 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
