The Best Byron Katie Quotes (2023)

My life is a contribution. — Byron Katie

Nothing ever goes wrong in life. — Byron Katie

War that I have anywhere in my life should stop. — Byron Katie

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination––ev en you. — Byron Katie

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. — Byron Katie

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying! — Byron Katie

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. — Byron Katie

The mind usually says, ‘I know, I know, I know.’ But the ‘don’t–know mind’ is where wisdom lives. — Byron Katie

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up. — Byron Katie

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear. — Byron Katie

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

There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life. — Byron Katie

It’s not what happens in life that bothers us. It’s what we’re believing about it that bothers us. — Byron Katie

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. — Byron Katie

Dying is everything they were looking for in life. — Byron Katie

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting. — Byron Katie

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. — Byron Katie

Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less? — Byron Katie

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. — Byron Katie

Self–realization is not complete until it lives in action. — Byron Katie

If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind’s every waking moment will be plotting those things. That’s how it stays identified–as a body, as a you. — Byron Katie

Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer. — Byron Katie

Mind is everything. There’s nothing that it’s not. — Byron Katie

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it’s unlimited. There’s nothing you cannot do. — Byron Katie

Every mind deserves to be free. — Byron Katie

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. — Byron Katie

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind — Byron Katie

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering. — Byron Katie

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they’re very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind. — Byron Katie

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering. — Byron Katie

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home. — Byron Katie

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. — Byron Katie

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world–all of it. — Byron Katie

The apparent craziness of the world, like everything else, is a gift that we can use to set our minds free. — Byron Katie

It’s just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself. — Byron Katie

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart. — Byron Katie

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. — Byron Katie

If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there! — Byron Katie

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it. — Byron Katie

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place. — Byron Katie

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

A mind that doesn’t question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous. — Byron Katie

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed. — Byron Katie

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. — Byron Katie

There is nothing that isn’t true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not. — Byron Katie

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. — Byron Katie

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom. — Byron Katie

I really believe I’m right. So, tell me, where am I wrong? — Byron Katie

What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see. — Byron Katie

It’s not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be. — Byron Katie

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question. — Byron Katie

Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie? — Byron Katie

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim. — Byron Katie

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

We don’t attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment. — Byron Katie

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe. — Byron Katie

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering. — Byron Katie

It’s for each of us to look at what we really do believe–what our belief system really consists of. — Byron Katie

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. — Byron Katie

The last story: God is everything, God is good. — Byron Katie

Gratitude is what we are without a story. — Byron Katie

Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it. — Byron Katie

No one has ever been angry at another human being–we’re only angry at our story of them. — Byron Katie

You are what exists before all stories. — Byron Katie

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories. — Byron Katie

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment. — Byron Katie

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

Love is who we are without our stories. — Byron Katie

You are the effect of your story, that’s all. — Byron Katie

Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is–it’s over. — Byron Katie

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world. — Byron Katie

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. — Byron Katie

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

Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience… When people hear me tell the story, they often say, ‘Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!’ But it’s not enough. — Byron Katie

It’s only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need. — Byron Katie

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story. — Byron Katie

That’s where the fear comes from–from your uninvestigated thoughts. — Byron Katie

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing. — Byron Katie

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. — Byron Katie

There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled. — Byron Katie

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else? — Byron Katie

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they’re not true. — Byron Katie

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war. — Byron Katie

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts. — Byron Katie

When I believed my thoughts I suffered. — Byron Katie

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought. — Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself. — Byron Katie

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal. — Byron Katie

If you don’t like your world, question your thoughts about it. — Byron Katie

Look at your life without the thought ‘Something terrible is going to happen. — Byron Katie

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us. — Byron Katie

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t. — Byron Katie

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can. — Byron Katie

You’re either attaching to your thoughts or inquiring. There’s no other choice. — Byron Katie

The world is a projection of our thoughts–the thoughts we believe. — Byron Katie

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true. — Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life. — Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. — Byron Katie

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking. — Byron Katie

Reality is always kinder than your thinking. — Byron Katie

Every problem perceived to be ‘out there’ is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking. — Byron Katie

Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don’t have any other business. — Byron Katie

Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end. — Byron Katie

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself–your own thinking coming back at you. — Byron Katie

Because if it hurts, it’s your thinking that’s hurting you. — Byron Katie

It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem. — Byron Katie

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

When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That’s the only freedom. — Byron Katie

Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders. — Byron Katie

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

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom. — Byron Katie

I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world. — Byron Katie

I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are. — Byron Katie

Personalities don’t love. They want something. — Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There’s Nothing You Can Do About It. — Byron Katie

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet. — Byron Katie

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something. — Byron Katie

I love what I think, and I’m never tempted to believe it. — Byron Katie

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

That’s what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that’s where it is. — Byron Katie

How do you react when you think you need people’s love? Do you become a slave for their approval? — Byron Katie

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself. — Byron Katie

When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be. — Byron Katie

We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are. — Byron Katie

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons. — Byron Katie

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. — Byron Katie

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it–that you are it. — Byron Katie

If I had a prayer, it would be this: ‘God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen. — Byron Katie

Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible. — Byron Katie

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world. — Byron Katie

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation–from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun. — Byron Katie