Quotes from Byron Katie

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

Would you rather be right or free?

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

My life is a contribution.

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

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

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.

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

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

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."

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.