Thinking Quotes by Byron Katie

58 Thinking quotes by Byron Katie

Byron Katie likens thoughts to wind or raindrops, saying they are not personal. She says the real problem is not the event itself but how we think about it, and that solving comes from looking inside rather than searching outside.

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If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

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Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.

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It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

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I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

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You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.

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When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

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What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to…

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The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say,…

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The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who…

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If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut:…

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How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

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I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.

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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you…

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Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you…

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If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me…

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I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the…

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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of…

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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story…

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Inquiry appears to be a process of thinking, but actually it's a way to undo thinking. Thoughts lose their power over us…

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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…

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Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not…

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If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand,…

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I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God's. Much of our stress comes from mentally…

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When people are talking about manifesting, we can say, "I want a car, I want a car, I want a car," but…

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Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think,…

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The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking…

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They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am…

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So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way…

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Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

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I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world.

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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

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I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.

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I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.

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Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business.

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Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

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Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

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As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

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“Reality doesn’t wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on it. Gary:”

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