Quotes from Byron Katie

El mundo es tu percepción de él. Lo interior y lo exterior siempre se corresponden: el uno refleja al otro. El mundo es el reflejo de tu mente. Si experimentas caos y confusión en tu interior, tu mundo exterior tiene que reflejarlo. Tienes que ver lo que crees, porque eres el pensador confundido que mira hacia fuera y se ve a sí mismo. Eres el intérprete de todo, y si eres caótico, lo que oyes y lo que ves tiene que ser un caos.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. Baruch Spinoza

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered," Katie says, "but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional.

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Children don't know these things. So we begin now. That's what I love about this Work—we can write from a three-year-old perspective if we need to. It's timeless.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.

cuando alguien me decía algo que era verdad, me daba cuenta de ello porque me ponía a la defensiva de inmediato

Well, sweetheart, it's the last place we look—to ourselves. This is a surgery. We go in and get it all.

El sufrimiento es una alarma natural que nos alerta de que nos estamos apegando a un pensamiento; cuando no escuchamos, llegamos a aceptar ese sufrimiento como una parte inevitable de la vida, pero no lo es.

It's not your job to like me. It's mine!

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't—that there was never anything to forgive

La realidad es siempre más amable que las historias que contamos sobre ella.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

My love is my business; it has nothing to do with you. You love me, and that isn't personal. You tell the story that I am this, or I am that, and you fall in love with your story. What do I have to do with it? I am here for your perception, as if I had a choice. I am your story, no more and no less. You have never met me. No one has ever met anyone.

Mind's job is to be right, and it can justify itself faster than the speed of light. Stop the portion of your thinking that is the source of your fear, anger, sadness, or resentment by transferring it to paper.

There's no light, no up or down, no possibility of movement, no anything. There's nothing, forever, with no way out. I felt such terror.

You can argue with the way things are. You'll lose, but only 100% of the time.

People used to ask me if I was enlightened, and I would say, "I don't know anything about that. I'm just someone who knows the difference between what hurts and what doesn't.

El sufrimiento está causado por un apego a una creencia profundamente fijada. Es un estado en el que se produce un apego ciego a algo que uno cree que es verdad.

referente a la realidad, no hay ningún «debería ser». Sólo hay lo que es, de la manera que es y en este mismo momento. La verdad es anterior a cualquier historia. Y cualquier historia, antes de la investigación, nos impide ver lo que es verdad.

Whose business are my children? Their business! When we're mentally out of our children's business, we have a shot at happiness, and so do they, because finally there's an example in the house.

Here the Buddha repeats what he said in previous chapters. These chapters make important points that are worth repeating: that the bodhisattva's focus is always on selfless service to others, that there are no others, and that there is no such thing as enlightenment. If you understand these three points, you understand everything. If you understand just one of the points, you understand everything. Each is a different aspect of the same truth.

ARTHUR: I want me to stop attacking my mother. I want me to accept her, love her, and embrace her as good enough for me. KATIE: Yes, sweetheart. That's your prescription for

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