Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie

Your fears are nothing more than a lack of integrity, that's all, there's no mystery. Write them down, inquire, and notice how they just don't arise anymore; and if they do, they have encountered a friend, and there's peace. Fear is lack of integrity, and the way you know this is that when you're in a lie, you experience discomfort.

I often say, "If I had a prayer, it would be: 'God spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."'

When your mind becomes clear, everything else follows. You step into the living of it, and then your job, your money, your children, and everything else follows. You get clear, and everything is cause and effect: I do this, I get that. That's the way of it.

The job you do out there in the apparent world is secondary. It's only a place for you to judge, inquire, and know yourself. Your true job is to appreciate what is; your primary profession is to be clear.

Thoughts are friends, not enemies. They're just what is. They appear. They're innocent. We're not doingthem. They're not personal. They're like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. Thoughts arise like that, and we can make friends with them.

You've never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. There's nothing separate out there. And you react to the meaning you've projected. Loneliness comes from an honest place-you're the only one here. There are no humans here. You're it. This world doesn't even exist. When you investigate your thoughts and stop believing your proj

When you love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world, because the world is exactly as it should be.

There is no such thing as an addiction to an object; there is only an attachment to the uninvestigated concept arising in the moment.

I say, be grateful when he does what you want; and when he doesn't, skip the middleman and do it yourself.