Quotes from Byron Katie

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It's what I am. And when I'm clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

No one has ever been angry at another human being we're only angry at our story of them.

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.

My experience is the opposite.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

We fear only what we haven't understood.

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

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

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

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

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

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.