Top 350 Byron Katie Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Your parents are your projection-nothing more.”

— Byron Katie

102. “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

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

105. “It’s only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

107. “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

108. “We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.”

— Byron Katie

109. “My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.”

— Byron Katie

110. “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

111. “The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.”

— Byron Katie

112. “How do you react when you think you need people’s love? Do you become a slave for their approval?”

— Byron Katie

113. “That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.”

— Byron Katie

114. “God’s will and your will are the same, whether you notice it or not. There’s no mistake in the universe. It’s not possible to have the concept “mistake” unless you’re comparing what is with what isn’t. Without the story in your mind, it’s all perfect. No mistake.”

— Byron Katie

115. “I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn’t shift until it does, and when it does shift, it’s right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can’t be pushed ahead of our own understanding.”

— Byron Katie

116. “Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don’t want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.”

— Byron Katie

117. “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.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

119. “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.”

— Byron Katie

120. “Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.”

— Byron Katie

121. “Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.”

— Byron Katie

122. “What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind.”

— Byron Katie

123. “The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match – they’re reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.”

— Byron Katie

124. “Self-realization is the sweetest thing. It shows us how we are fully responsible for ourselves, and that is where we find our freedom.”

— Byron Katie

125. “The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.”

— Byron Katie

126. “All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.”

— Byron Katie

127. “Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.”

— Byron Katie

128. “I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.”

— Byron Katie

129. “There is no mistake in nature.”

— Byron Katie

130. “There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.”

— Byron Katie

131. “Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.”

— Byron Katie

132. “If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!”

— Byron Katie

133. “You are your only hope, because we’re not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we’re aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.”

— Byron Katie

134. “When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.”

— Byron Katie

135. “The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.”

— Byron Katie

136. “The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.”

— Byron Katie

137. “Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.”

— Byron Katie

138. “As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.”

— Byron Katie

139. “When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.”

— Byron Katie

140. “It’s a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.”

— Byron Katie

141. “There’s no nightmare you can’t wake yourself up from.”

— Byron Katie

142. “Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?”

— Byron Katie

143. “Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.”

— Byron Katie

144. “Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.”

— Byron Katie

145. “Stress never feels as natural as peace does.”

— Byron Katie

146. “It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us.”

— Byron Katie

147. “Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.”

— Byron Katie

148. “Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination – ev en you.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

150. “To make amends” means to right the perceived wrong. What I call “living amends” is more far-reaching. It applies not only to one particular incident but to all future incidents of that kind.”

— Byron Katie