Byron Katie Mind Quotations

If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.

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

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

I havent had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. Its somewhat complicated to understand that. Ive hardly ever spoken about it. Youre in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.

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?

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

Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not.

There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists of. Look at the concepts that come across your mind and just notice what you believe.

You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.

If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.

A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.