Byron Katie Quotes

“War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.”

“I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.”

World Way War Today Husband Argument Let Me Iraq California My Husband

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“If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs My Own Environment Let Me Clean Pollution Ecosystems

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“That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.”

Huge Clean Ecosystems

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“The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the world? I can't. And we all have equal wisdom, so if I can do it then I know that anyone can do it if their mind is open to answering just four simple questions and beginning there.”

Ifs Knows World Mind I Can War Can Do Simple Four Politician Equal I Can Do It Power Of One Stop War

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“What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.”

World Courses Natural Events Happenings

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“Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.”

People World Our Lives Love And Respect

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“If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.”

Ifs Happens Life Is Son Terror Things Happen Your Son

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“When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.”

Son Healthy Unhappy Your Son Healthy And Happy

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“If you question your thoughts about when your son is not healthy, you come to see that you're the only one you're worried about. It's like without him, you're not happy - so it's all about your happiness. You want him to live for you - for your happiness.”

Ifs Want Son Healthy Worried Not Happy Want Him Your Son

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“If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am.”

Ifs Dying Son Okay Cancer Enlightened My Son

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“I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die.”

Thinking Children Dies Our Children

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“I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.”

Children Teaching Our Children Invites

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“It takes only one person to have a successful relationship.”

Persons Successful Successful Relationship

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“If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.”

Ifs Said War Order Justify Katie

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“They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am an expert in" whatever area we're talking about. Or, "No, you are wrong! And I think you're rude!" Or anything like that, and if we don't say it out loud, maybe we think it, but that's stressful. The moment I've defended, in any way, I've started the war.”

Ifs Thinking Way War Moments Talking Areas Dare Loud Experts Rude Stressful Katie

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“Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.”

People Want Humanity Simple

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“I really believe I'm right. So, tell me, where am I wrong?”

Believe

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“I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.”

Mind Add

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“When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.”

Believe Can Do Don't Believe

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“When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.”

World Believe Interesting Position Very Interesting

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“It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.”

Believe Littles Loses Believe In Yourself Little Things Identification

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“The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, there is someone who doesn't care." It just shifts and shifts and shifts, so it can keep all of its concepts intact.”

Mind Wells Doe Care Concepts Tricky No One Cares

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“Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one.”

Firsts Sometimes Asks Concepts Questioning

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“When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.”

Stills Answers Shock

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“What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to change anything, and not to do positive thinking at all.”

People Thinking Way Looks Positive Thinking Invites

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“Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."”

Looks Happens Terrible

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“It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.”

Believe Crazy Amazing Experiences

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“Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.”

Mind Blind Available Fearless

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“I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.”

Ifs Mind Suffering Easy Break Planets Expression Break Through

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“What I say and what I'm really experiencing - those universes are very different.”

Different Universe

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“We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere.”

Happens Fighting Can Do Planets Solutions Clean

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“We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.”

Mind Humans Action Known Creative Environment Right Now Mirrors Confused Our Environment Creative Mind Confused Mind

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“My life is a contribution.”

Life Is Contribution

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“Even breathing is a contribution.”

Breathing Contribution

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“The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.”

World Mind Suffering Simple Violence Willingness Open Mind

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“The world begins with what we believe.”

World Believe

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“Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience.”

People Care Love Is Very Deep

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“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.”

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

Ifs Real Moments Missing Miracle Real Life Somewhere Else Katie

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“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".”

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

Love Reality Loses Katie

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“Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them”

Giving Belief Responsibility Judgment Blame Judgement Powerless Taking Responsibility Personal Power Katie Power To Change

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

Needs Happens Happened Katie

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“all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear”

Advice Partners Katie

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

Life Needs Moments Wisdom Wise Clever Live In The Moment Katie

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“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.”

Thinking Mean Long Problem Suffering Causes Situation Roles Forever Responsible Victim Paradise Hopeless Katie

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“A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.”

Years Believe Mean Suffering Belief Causes Attachment Our Thoughts Katie Inquiring

Book:Question Your Thinking, Change the World

Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World

“If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.”

Ifs Way Doe Hands Moving Suffering Causes Fire Direct Inquiry Untrue Katie

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

Heart Done Katie

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