Byron Katie Quotes

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

Keep this question in mind: 'What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other person?' It paves the way to more successful action.

Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.

I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.