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Portrait of Byron Katie

Byron Katie

(1942) Writer United States

480 quotes in 1226 categories

Byron Katie’s reflections provide a clear window into her inquiry practice. Across 480 entries you’ll encounter the gentle yet firm tone that guides her teachings.

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Byron Katie is a writer from the United States, best known for A mind at home with itself.

Quick Facts About Byron Katie

Born: December 6, 1942
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: A mind at home with itself
Spouse: Stephen Mitchell

About Byron Katie

Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie, is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie" or simply as "The Work". She is the founder of Byron Katie International, an organization that includes the School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California. Time Magazine describes her as "a spiritual innovator for the 21st century."

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Byron Katie

That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.

Clean

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The last story: God is everything, God is good.

God

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

Think

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“Don't believe every thing you think.”

Believe

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Who would you be without your story?

Funny

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When I believed my thoughts I suffered.

Believed

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An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

Inspirational

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Every mind deserves to be free.

Deserve

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“In reality, the pain we feel about a past event is created in the present,”

Pain

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Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

Future

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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

Billions

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Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Innocence

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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Alarm

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The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.

Believe

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If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.

Ifs

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Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."

Happen

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It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.

Belief

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I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to…

Break

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Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

Mean

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When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either…

Believe

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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

Adversity

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The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when…

Believe

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When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is…

Iraq

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After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate…

Ifs

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I havent had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. Its somewhat complicated to understand that. Ive hardly ever…

Complicated

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The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship…

Important

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If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide?…

Burn

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My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think…

Believer

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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…

Alienation

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The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the…

Can do

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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you…

Away from you

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When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to…

Age

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Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought.…

Believe

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There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you…

Anger

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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…

Action

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“Katie: Yes. Keep it simple, and just turn it around. Charles: I need Deborah to … Katie: “I need me …” Charles: I need…

Love myself

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Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a…

Believe

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So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You…

Awakening

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As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being:…

Believe

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When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything…

Abundance

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Byron Katie by topic

Inspirational (129) Love (105) Believe (66) Mind (62) World (60) Psychology (59) Thinking (58) Katie (55) Ifs (55) Time (52) Life (47) People (39) Knows (36) Philosophy of Mind (34) Suffering (34) Stories (33) Funny (33) Way (31) Want (29) Reality (29) Needs (28) Freedom (26) Peace (25) Moments (25) Thoughts (22)