Byron Katie Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of Byron Katie's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Author Byron Katie's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 450 quotes on this page collected since December 6, 1942! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
  • That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.

    Ecosystems   Clean   Huge  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • You are what exists before all stories.

    Stories   Katie  
    Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • It is not your business to love me. It is mine.

  • 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.

    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.

    Children   Moving   Space  
    Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.102, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.

    Morning   Eye   Sleep  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

  • When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

    Freedom   Stress   Kind  
    Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.330, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

    Giving  
    Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • If our stressful thoughts aren't true, what does that leave? It leaves, "I am loveable" - the very thing I could never make myself believe, because "I'm unloveable" overrides it when the chips are down.

    Believe   Doe   Stressful  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

    Perfect   Mind   World  
    "Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, 2002.
  • 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 (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

  • You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.

    Twitter post from Apr 07, 2011
  • Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

    Believe   Stuck   Trauma  
    Twitter post from Dec 10, 2011
  • 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.

    Done   Way   Opinion  
  • Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.

    Twitter post from Sep 23, 2013
  • So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

    Mother   Havens  
    Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

    Twitter post from Jan 15, 2013
  • No one can give you freedom but you.

  • I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

    War   Mind   Way  
  • 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!

    Time   Blow   Winning  
  • Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.

    Children   Parent   Sake  
    "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.
  • I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in.

    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.

    Hurt   Hurt Me   Can Do  
    Twitter post from Mar 13, 2011
  • For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.

    "On Snakes, Sticks, and Jedi Mind Tricks: An Interview with Byron Katie". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. January 4, 2017.
  • Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

    Twitter post from Jan 26, 2014
  • It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

  • Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

    Stress   Believe   Alarms  
  • Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

    Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are”, p.22, Random House
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  • We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 450 quotes from the Author Byron Katie, starting from December 6, 1942! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!