Top 350 Byron Katie Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

103. “Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

105. “Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.”

— Byron Katie

106. “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

107. “Your parents are your projection-nothing more.”

— Byron Katie

108. “You are the effect of your story, that’s all.”

— Byron Katie

109. “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

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

115. “There is no mistake in nature.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

118. “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

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

— Byron Katie

120. “The most important relationship is the mind’s relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate – and, really, the only – relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.”

— Byron Katie

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

127. “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

128. “Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?”

— Byron Katie

129. “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

130. “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

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

140. “I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They’re not personal, they don’t belong to us, they just come and go. When they’re met with understanding, they’re friends.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

142. “When you act like a teacher, it’s usually because you’re afraid to be the student.”

— Byron Katie

143. “An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.”

— Byron Katie

144. “Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.”

— Byron Katie

145. “The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.”

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Byron Katie

148. “Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.”

— Byron Katie

149. “Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.”

— Byron Katie

150. “The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.”

— Byron Katie