Quotes from Byron Katie

Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

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

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.

That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.

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

I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!

It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Isn't it marvelous to discover that you're the one you've been waiting for? That you are your own freedom?

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it.