Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie

Without the “should” and “shouldn’t,” we can see reality as it is, and this leaves us free to act efficiently, clearly, and sanely.

They all began by realizing a truth so basic that it is usually invisible: the fact that (in the words of the Greek philosopher Epictetus) “we are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.” As soon as they grasped that truth, their whole understanding changed.

Appreciation of the mystery of life is not another state that we have to attain. It is merely the knowledge and acceptance that there is really nowhere else we have to go, nothing else we have to do. Now, there are feeling-states which I associate with this freedom and this appreciation of the mystery of life. They are a kind-of pervasive, loving p

What if letting go of suffering wasn’t possible tomorrow—that today, even right now, was all you had, and you had nothing else but today? All of a sudden, you would look at your whole existence through completely different eyes. See if you can feel what it is to exist only now. See what it’s like to completely take tomorrow, and yesterday, out of t