Byron Katie

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

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.

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.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

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

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

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

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

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.

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

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.