Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
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
It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The… — 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
Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even… — 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
I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts;… — 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
Inquiry appears to be a process of thinking, but actually it's a way to undo thinking. Thoughts lose their power over us… — 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
I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people… — 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
So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You… — 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
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
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
