Byron Katie Quotes

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

You learn to accept your own reality.

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

I make sure I cut down the negative thoughts and accept the reality there is. If it is going good, it is good.

Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what "they" are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

You grow, learn, and the more I can sit in silence and be comfortable with myself, the more I can make noise, as ironic and Zen Buddhist and satanic as it sounds!

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.