Byron Katie Quotes

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It’s like the song “Amazing Grace”: I was blind and now I see.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.

With 'Guzaarish' I went through a catharsis.

I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.

I woke up one day, and for some reason all the hate and anger was gone.

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

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.