Quotes from Byron Katie

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there"—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you're suffering in paradise.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it's true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we've been attaching to, often for years.

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

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

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

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don't have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

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

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

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

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

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