Quotes from Byron Katie

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.

Nothing ever goes wrong in life.

I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

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

You can't have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That's the way this works.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

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

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

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

Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?

It is not your business to love me. It is mine.

It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

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