Byron Katie Quotes

And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

I've got a war in my mind

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

There never was a war that was not inward.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.