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

How do you react when you believe the thought that if you had more money you'd be happier? You get to be unhappy now.

The worst that can happen is that I think you think about me what I think about myself. So I am sitting in a pool of me.

If you just understand "the three kinds of business" enough to stay in your own business, it could free your life in a way that you can't even imagine. The next time you're feeling stress or discomfort, ask yourself whose business you're in mentally, and you may burst out laughing! That question can bring you back to yourself.

nothing less than an open mind is creative enough to free you from the pain of arguing with what is. An open mind is the only way to peace. As long as you think that you know what should and shouldn't happen, you're trying to manipulate God. This is a recipe for unhappiness.

You don't experience anxiety unless you've attached to a thought that isn't true for you. It's that simple. You don't ever feel anxiety until you believe that a thought is true-and it's not.

But when we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

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.

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.

Let's take a shortcut that can last a lifetime. Answer this question: Who would you be without the story "My future depends on making a lot of money"? Happier. More relaxed. With or without the money. You'd have everything you wanted money for in the first place.