Byron Katie Quotes

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 married to the writer and translator Stephen Mitchell. 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 called her "a spiritual innovator for the 21st century."

✵ 6. December 1942   •   Other names Байрон Кейті, بایرون کتی
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Famous Byron Katie Quotes

“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.”

Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Byron Katie Quotes about love

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

Source: A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

“Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it’s over.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.””

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Byron Katie Quotes about reality

“When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“I’m a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.”

Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“For me, reality is God, because it rules.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

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“No one can hurt me—that’s my job.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“No one has ever been angry at another human being—we’re only angry at our story of them.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

Byron Katie Quotes

“all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear”

Source: Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie

“An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Forgiveness is realizing that what you thought happened, didn’t.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Defense is the first act of war.”

Your Inner Awakening

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

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.”

Your Inner Awakening

“Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.”

Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.”

Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.”

Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“We say to others only what we need to hear.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Sanity doesn’t suffer, ever.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Everything happens for me, not to me.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly—no mistake.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Gratitude is what we are without a story.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Personalities don’t love—they want something.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“There are no physical problems—only mental ones.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“When I walk into a room, I know that everyone in it loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

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

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“If I think you’re my problem, I’m insane.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Thoughts aren’t personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“I could find only three kinds of business in the world—mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“I don’t let go of concepts—I question them. Then they let go of me.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Would you rather be right or free?”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“What is is. You don’t get a vote. Haven’t you noticed?”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“In my experience, it takes only one person to have a successful relationship, and that's me.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’ve attached to something not true for you.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

““I don’t know” is my favorite position.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Ultimately, I am all I can know.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“Until you look forward to criticism, your Work’s not done.”

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

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