Quotes from Byron Katie

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream." Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking right now. You're living in a story that isn't true for you.

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

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

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.

When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

Defense is the first act of war.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

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.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives.

Love is who we are without our stories.

I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.

The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

I'm the one I need to work with.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.