The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear,… — 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
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n. — 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
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer". — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide?… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance,… — 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
“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
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
It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered,” Katie says, “but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all… — 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
