Byron Katie Quotes

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

The only journey is the one within.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

If you do not go within, you without

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?