Byron Katie Quotes

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

[Donald] Trump, I think, is the sort of guy that if he maybe thought he'd made a little bit of a mistake, would find a way out, he wouldn't want to say, "Well, that's what I've done and I'm sticking to it, and I don't give a damn." Which is what the other people in America would be like.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

My hope is that when someone has that call to action, they realize that everybody can do something, even if that's just changing their own thinking. Women have to change the way they think, too. Not just men.

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

People think that they see, but they don't.

To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.