Byron Katie
Author
1942-12-06
Byron Katie is an American speaker and author.
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Quotes by Byron Katie
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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.
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I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
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Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn't ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector— mind— rather than the projected. It's like when there's a piece of lint on a projector's lens. We think there's a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it's futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.
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It's not your job to like me - it's mine
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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.
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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.
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All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
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Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn't ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector— mind— rather than the projected. It's like when there's a piece of lint on a projector's lens. We think there's a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it's futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.
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It's not your job to like me - it's mine
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
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I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
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I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.
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One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
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I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
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