241 Quotes by Byron Katie

Personalities don't love—they want something. (Quote Meaning)

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark. (Meaning)

No one can hurt me—that's my job. (Quote Meaning)

We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story. (Meaning)

Until you look forward to criticism, your Work's not done. (Quote Meaning)

I'm very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just don't expect them to realize it yet. (Meaning)

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. (Quote Meaning)

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Everything happens for me, not to me. (Meaning)

Would you rather be right or free? (Quote Meaning)

When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time. (Meaning)

You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood. (Quote Meaning)

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. (Meaning)

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

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons. (Quote Meaning)

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you. (Meaning)

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

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

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem. (Quote Meaning)

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine. (Meaning)

If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

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

Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s only when I believe a stressful thought that I get hurt. And I’m the one who’s hurting me by believing what I think. This is very good news, because it means that I don’t have to get someone else to stop hurting me. I’m the one who can stop hurting me. It’s within my power.

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

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

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

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. (Meaning)

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can

Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don't know how to stop.

There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you consider flaws, good, because these flaws are your own, you're projecting them, and you can write them down, inquire, and set yourself free. People go to India to find a guru, but you don't have to: you're living with one. Your partner will give you everything you need for your own freedom.

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.

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

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

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

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

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

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

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.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They're not personal, they don't belong to us, they just come and go. When they're met with understanding, they're friends.

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

When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

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

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

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

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

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.

Love is action. It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible.

Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.

We say to others only what we need to hear

Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless. (Quote Meaning)

In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

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.

"When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world.

The world is exactly as it should be."

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. (Meaning)

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change. (Quote Meaning)

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

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

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . .

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

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.

It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

"The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there.

And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner."

When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible. (Meaning)

After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

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

If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

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.

Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.

I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

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

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.

An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.

When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

To argue with reality is to argue with God

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

I have had the privilege of losing everything.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it. (Quote Meaning)

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.

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

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. (Meaning)

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship. (Meaning)

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

When people are talking about manifesting, we can say, "I want a car, I want a car, I want a car," but if the mind is running, "I don't deserve it, I'll never be able to afford it, I'll never be a success" - if all those things are running - then those things are what we're really manifesting. They are exactly what's running our life. And as long as we believe those thoughts, thinking positively is not strong enough to override our negative beliefs.

If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

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

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

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

For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life. (Meaning)

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself

Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

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

A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. (Quote Meaning)

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

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

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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.

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

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening.

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

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.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

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

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

"Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom."

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.

It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.

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.

You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

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

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

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.

What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.

"Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear."

There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from. (Meaning)

To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children.

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

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

It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.

Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.

Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. (Meaning)

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. (Meaning)

Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

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

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

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

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

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up. (Meaning)

You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

It doesn´t come later. Everything you´re supposed to do is here right now.

It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

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.

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.

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

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

We cannot see what we don't believe.

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

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.

"If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now."

I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

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

"Inquiry appears to be a process of thinking, but actually it's a way to undo thinking. Thoughts lose their power over us when we realize that they simply appear in the mind. They're not personal. Through The Work, instead of escaping or suppressing our thoughts, we learn to meet them with unconditional love and understanding."

There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.

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

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

There are no physical problems—only mental ones. (Quote Meaning)

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.

It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about realizing what's true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around.

Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

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.

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.