Top 350 Byron Katie Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Gratitude is what we are without a story.”

— Byron Katie

52. “What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.”

— Byron Katie

53. “Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

55. “When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.”

— Byron Katie

56. “Would you rather be right or free?”

— Byron Katie

57. “Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.”

— Byron Katie

58. “No one can hurt me – that’s my job.”

— Byron Katie

59. “I realized that it’s insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It’s blowing!”

— Byron Katie

60. “We say to others only what we need to hear.”

— Byron Katie

61. “Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.”

— Byron Katie

62. “Lack of understanding is always painful.”

— Byron Katie

63. “I have had the privilege of losing everything.”

— Byron Katie

64. “When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.”

— Byron Katie

65. “You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.”

— Byron Katie

66. “If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.”

— Byron Katie

67. “If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.”

— Byron Katie

68. “I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.”

— Byron Katie

69. “The mind’s job is to validate what it thinks.”

— Byron Katie

70. “After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.””

— Byron Katie

71. “Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.”

— Byron Katie

72. “You can only see what you believe – nothing else is possible.”

— Byron Katie

73. “Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don’t have any other business.”

— Byron Katie

74. “When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.”

— Byron Katie

75. “What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?”

— Byron Katie

76. “Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it – that you are it.”

— Byron Katie

77. “This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.”

— Byron Katie

78. “It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie.”

— Byron Katie

79. “Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.”

— Byron Katie

80. “For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity: for me to give the person a better life, to realize where not to be, and to see what could be even better than being with that person I love.”

— Byron Katie

81. “Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.”

— Byron Katie

82. “We fear only what we haven’t understood.”

— Byron Katie

83. “The worst loss you’ve ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.”

— Byron Katie

84. “There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.”

— Byron Katie

85. “The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.”

— Byron Katie

86. “Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.”

— Byron Katie

87. “What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.”

— Byron Katie

88. “Don’t believe every thing you think.”

— Byron Katie

89. “No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.”

— Byron Katie

90. “Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.”

— Byron Katie

91. “Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.”

— Byron Katie

92. “When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.”

— Byron Katie

93. “Isn’t it marvelous to discover that you’re the one you’ve been waiting for? That you are your own freedom?”

— Byron Katie

94. “Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.”

— Byron Katie

95. “You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.”

— Byron Katie

96. “We don’t hear what someone said; we imagine what they meant.”

— Byron Katie

97. “You are what exists before all stories.”

— Byron Katie

98. “You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

100. “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?”

— Byron Katie