Background Image

...

I Use The Word Inquiry As Synonymous With The Work...inquiry Is A Way To End Confusion And To Experience Internal Peace, Even In A World Of Apparent Chaos. Above All Else, Inquiry Is About Realizing That All The Answers We Ever Need Are Always Available Inside Us.

-Byron Katie

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

I Use The Word

Byron Katie

...

I Use The Word Inquiry As Synonymous With The Work...inquiry Is A Way To End Confusion And To Experience Internal Peace, Even In A World Of Apparent Chaos. Above All Else, Inquiry Is About Realizing That All The Answers We Ever Need Are Always Available Inside Us.

Views: 5

Topic

More From Byron Katie

I Would Go Out Into The Desert. The Desert Was My Teacher. I Didn't Know About Gurus And Wise People-i Wasn't A Reader.

Arguing With Reality It Like Trying To Teach A Cat To Bark.

It's Not Your Job To Like Me - It's Mine

Love Is Worth Living. Why Do You Trade Life For Less?

God, As I Use The Word, Is Another Name For What Is. I Always Know God's Intention: It's Exactly What Is In Every Moment.

When A Thought Hurts, That’s The Signal That It Isn’t True.

There Is No Thought Or Situation That You Can't Put Up Against Inquiry. Every Thought, Every Person, Every Apparent Problem Is Here For The Sake Of Your Freedom.

Joy Is A Natural Way Of Being.

Behold Your World! The Judgments You Believe Just Created It.

This Is The Time. This Is The Place. This Is The Vastness. Right Here Is Paradise. Always. Always.

The World Is Perfect. As You Question Your Mind, This Becomes More And More Obvious.

I Can Find Only Three Kinds Of Business In The Universe: Mine, Yours And God's. Much Of Our Stress Comes From Mentally Living Out Of Our Business. When I Think, "you Need To Get A Job, I Want You To Be Happy, You Should Be On Time, You Need To Take Better Care Of Yourself," I Am In Your Business. When I'm Worried About Earthquakes, Floods, War, Or When I Will Die, I Am In God's Business. If I Am Mentally In Your Business Or In God's Business, The Effect Is Separation.

Nothing You Believe Is True. To Know This Is Freedom.

I Know That Even At Moments Of Apparent Danger, Nothing Is Out Of Order Or Lacking, Other Than Our Own Unquestioned Thoughts About Those Moments.

It's Just A Constant Thing When The Mind Starts To Wake Up To Itself.

If I Had A Prayer, It Would Be This: "god, Spare Me From The Desire For Love, Approval, Or Appreciation. Amen."

The Worst Loss You've Ever Experienced Is The Greatest Gift You Can Have.

Mind Is Everything. There's Nothing That It's Not.

The World You Live In Is 100 Percent Your Own Responsibility. If You Don't Like Your World, It Doesn't Work To Say, "well, It's My Mother's Fault. She Taught Me How To Think."

If You Knew How Important You Are, You Would Fragment Into A Billion Pieces And Just Be Light.

The World Is As You Perceive It To Be. For Me, Clarity Is A Word For Beauty. It’s What I Am. And When I’m Clear, I See Only Beauty. Nothing Else Is Possible.

All I Have Is All I Need And All I Need Is All I Have In This Moment.

Money Is Not My Business; My Thinking Is My Business. I Don't Have Any Other Business.

Our Job Is Unconditional Love. The Job Of Everyone Else In Our Life Is To Push Our Buttons.

Here's What I Would Want For Humanity, Because This Is What I Have Come To See Is True: It's So Simple When We Listen To People.

We Suffer Only Until We Realize That We Can't Know Anything.

It's Quite An Amazing Experience To See The Same Life With And Without The Thought. We Come To See How Crazy A Thought Can Make Us When We Believe It.

Amazing Experiences

Inquiry Appears To Be A Process Of Thinking, But Actually It's A Way To Undo Thinking. Thoughts Lose Their Power Over Us When We Realize That They Simply Appear In The Mind. They're Not Personal. Through The Work, Instead Of Escaping Or Suppressing Our Thoughts, We Learn To Meet Them With Unconditional Love And Understanding.

Unconditional Love

Bottom Line Is, If Someone Says Something About Me And It Upsets Me, It's True.

Love Is Action. It's Clear, It's Kind, It's Effortless, And It's Irresistible.

Until The Mind Is Open, The Heart Stays Closed. The Open Mind Is The Key To The Open Heart.

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.

The Pain Shows You What's Left To Investigate.

Any Thought Of Discomfort Or Stress Is An Alarm That Lets You Know You're Believing An Untrue Thought

People Try So Hard To Let Go Of Their Negative Behaviors And Thoughts, And It Doesn't Work, Or It Works Only For A Short Time. I Didn't Let Go Of My Negative Thoughts; I Questioned Them, And Then They Let Go Of Me, And So Did My Addictions And Depression.

Who Would You Be Without Your Story?

Your Suffering Is Never Caused By The Person You're Blaming.

My Mother Became A Believer, And Then I Became A Believer. But When I Was 43 Years Old, I Began To Think For Myself, Somehow, By Fluke And By Grace. And I Thought, "oh, My. I Was So Mistaken." The World Isn't What I Believed It To Be. I Am Not What I Believed Me To Be, And Neither Is Anyone.

If You Are An Enemy To Your Own Mind, Other People Have To Become Enemies Too, Sooner Or Later. Until You Understand, Until You Can Love The Thoughts That Appear In Your Mind, Then You Can Love The Rest Of Us. You Work With The Projector -the Mind - Not The Projected World. I Can't Really Love You Until I Question The Mind That Thinks It Sees You Outside Itself . . .

No One Has Ever Been Angry At Another Human Being-we’re Only Angry At Our Story Of Them.

If I Want Something, I Go Get It. Anything That I Believe Will Stop Me, I Question.

It's Not The Darkness That People Fear; It's What They Imagine Into The Darkness.

My Happiness Isn't Dependent On Anyone Else's.

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.

I Suffered From Severe Depression For Over A Decade. My Condition Deteriorated Steadily. I Was Suicidal.

Asking The Questions - That's What Changes Lives. Every Cell In Your Body Is Awake With Inquiry. And You Cannot Believe The Old Thoughts Again.

Some Of Us Are Returning To Sanity, Because We're Tired Of The Pain. We're In A Hurry. No Time To Mess Around.

I Am Never Unhappy, You Can Achieve That As Well.

When You Run In Fear, It's Square Into The Wall.

When We Believe In Our Thoughts, When We Tell Ourselves A Story, We Suffer. 'my Husband Doesn't Respect Me.' 'i Should Be Thinner.' Those Are Stories. When There's No Story, There's No Suffering.

I Realized That It's Insane To Oppose It. When I Argue With Reality, I Lose-but Only 100% Of The Time. How Do I Know That The Wind Should Blow? It's Blowing!

'i Don't Know' Is My Favorite Position.

When Your Son Is Healthy And Happy, You're Healthy And Happy. And When Your Son Is Not Healthy, Let's Say You're Unhappy.

I Am A Lover Of What Is, Not Because I'm A Spiritual Person, But Because It Hurts When I Argue With Reality.

If Our Thinking Is Clear, How Could Work Or Money Be The Problem? Our Thinking Is All We Need To Change.

When You Think That Someone Or Something Other Than Yourself Needs To Change, You're Mentally Out Of Your Business.

The World Is Nothing But My Perception Of It. I See Only Through Myself. I Hear Only Through The Filter Of My Story.

When I Believed My Thoughts I Suffered.

That's What I Love About Integrity. Each Time We Go Inside, That's Where It Is.

As Far As Intellect, What Else Is There? Without Intellect, No Story And No World.

I Think Our Children Are Afraid To Die Because We're Afraid To Die.

I Stopped Waiting For The World To Give Me What I Wanted; I Started Giving It To Myself.

My Experience Is That The Teachers We Need Most Are The People We're Living With Right Now.

The Mind Usually Says, “i Know, I Know, I Know.” But The “don’t-know Mind” Is Where Wisdom Lives.

If You Think The Cause Of Your Problem Is 'out There,' You'll Try To Solve It From The Outside. Take The Shortcut: Solve It From Within.

So, How Do You Get Back To Heaven? To Begin With, Just Notice The Thoughts That Take You Away From It. You Don't Have To Believe Everything Your Thoughts Tell You. Just Become Familiar With The Particular Thoughts You Use To Deprive Yourself Of Happiness. It May Seem Strange At First To Get To Know Yourself In This Way, But Becoming Familiar With Your Stressful Thoughts Will Show You The Way Home To Everything You Need.

Whatever It Takes For You To Find Your Freedom, That's What You've Lived.

Whatever It Takes

There's Never A Mistake In The Universe. So If Your Partner Is Angry, Good. If There Are Things About Him That You Consider Flaws, Good, Because These Flaws Are Your Own, You're Projecting Them, And You Can Write Them Down, Inquire, And Set Yourself Free. People Go To India To Find A Guru, But You Don't Have To: You're Living With One. Your Partner Will Give You Everything You Need For Your Own Freedom.

Everything That Happens Is God's Will. When You Realize That, You're Home Free.

When I Was In My Early Forties, I Slept With A Loaded Gun Under My Bed. Id Become Severely Depressed In My Thirties, And For Almost A Decade I Spiraled Down Into Paranoia, Rage, Self-loathing, And Thoughts Of Suicide.

Some Children Are Afraid To Die Because Their Parents Are Afraid To Die. My Own Children Have Come To Understand That It's Totally Okay With Me If They Die. They Don't Have To Live For My Sake.

The World Is Perfect. As You Question Your Mind, This Becomes More And More Obvious. Mind Changes, And As A Result, The World Changes. A Clear Mind Heals Everything That Needs To Be Healed. It Can Never Be Fooled Into Believing That There Is One Speck Out Of Order.

I've Heard People Say That They Cling To Their Painful Thoughts Because They're Afraid That Without Them They Wouldn't Be Activists For Peace. “if I Feel Peaceful,” They Say, “why Would I Bother Taking Action At All?” My Answer Is “because That's What Love Does.” To Think That We Need Sadness Or Outrage To Motivate Us To Do What's Right Is Insane. As If The Clearer And Happier You Get, The Less Kind You Become. As If When Someone Finds Freedom, She Just Sits Around All Day With Drool Running Down Her Chin. My Experience Is The Opposite. Love Is Action.

You Can't Have An Up Without A Down. You Can't Have A Left Without A Right. This Is Duality. If You Have A Problem, You Must Already Have The Solution. The Question Is, Do You Really Want The Solution, Or Do You Want To Perpetuate The Problem?

The World Isn't What I've Believed It To Be, And I Am Not What I Believed Me To Be, And Neither Is Anyone.

To Understand Our Own Thinking Is To Understand All Thinking.

The Opening To Reality, As It Really Is, Is Beauty.

Judge Your Neighbor, Write It Down. Ask Four Questions, Turn It Around.

When You Discover That All Happiness Is Inside You, The Wanting And Needing Are Over, And Life Gets Very Exciting.

The Mind's Job Is To Validate What It Thinks.

What Would It Be Like To Let Go Of Wanting Things To Be Other Than They Are?

Trauma Is Nothing More Than Being Stuck In What You Believe.

The Mind Is So Tricky. It Will Say, "no One Cares. Is It True? Well, Someone Does. Let's See: So-and-so Doesn't Care. Well, Maybe They Do. Well, There Is Someone Who Doesn't Care." It Just Shifts And Shifts And Shifts, So It Can Keep All Of Its Concepts Intact.

Who I Believed Myself To Be Was A Hopeless Case. I Would Wake Up In The Mornings And Notice I Was Still Alive And Breathing And Hate God, Hate Myself, Hate Life, And Contemplate Ways Of Killing Myself.

I Have Had The Privilege Of Losing Everything.

Losing Everything

Nothing Can Cost You Someone You Love. The Only Thing That Can Cost You Your Husband Is If You Believe A Thought. That's How You Move Away From Him. That's How The Marriage Ends. You Are One With Your Husband Until You Believe The Thought That He Should Look A Certain Way, He Should Give You Something, He Should Be Something Other Than What He Is. That's How You Divorce Him. Right Then And There You Have Lost Your Marriage.

Defense Is The First Act Of War.

Life Is The Constant Opportunity To Wake Up.

It Doesn´t Come Later. Everything You´re Supposed To Do Is Here Right Now.

As We Watch The World Embrace The Olympics In The Coming Days, Let Us Remember Why The Modern Olympics Came Into Being: To Bring Nations Closer Together, To Have The Youth Of The World Compete In Sports, Rather Than Fight In War. As Long As We Believe Our Own War-driven Thoughts, There Will Always Be War, In Ourselves, In Our Families, And In Our World. As Long As We Believe Our Thoughts, There Will Always Be War.

The Teacher You Need Is The Person You're Living With.

If You Want Real Control, Drop The Illusion Of Control; Let Life Have You. It Does Anyway. You’re Just Telling Yourself The Story Of How It Doesn’t.

The Person Who Finds Peace Inside And Lives It, Is The One Who Teaches What True Peace Is.

Love Asks For Nothing. Only Personalities Want Something.

Freedom Is Our Birthright.

What We Believe, We See.

All Sadness Is A Tantrum.

Your Understanding Of Another Person Is Limited By What You Think You Already Know. So When You Just Listen, The Person You Meet Won't Match Your Preconception. The Exciting Thing Is That You Usually Meet Someone Much Wiser And Kinder Than You Expected. You Might Also Lose Track Of Your Ideas About Who You Are.

I Used To Sleep On The Floor Next To The Bed, Because I Believed That I Didn't Even Deserve A Bed To Sleep In. And Then, One Morning, A Cockroach Crawled Onto My Leg. I Looked At It, And Suddenly I Awoke From A Kind Of Hypnotic Trance In Which I Had Been All My Life.

The Only Way I Can Be Angry At You Is When I Have Thought, Said, Or Done Something That Is Unkind In My Own Opinion.

Life Is Simple. Everything Happens For You, Not To You. Everything Happens At Exactly The Right Moment, Neither Too Soon Nor Too Late. You Don't Have To Like It... It's Just Easier If You Do.

I Live In A State Of Grace, Where I Don't Have To Know.

What's Happening In The World Is A Natural Course Of Events.

Our Parents, Our Children, Our Spouses, And Our Friends Will Continue To Press Every Button We Have, Until We Realize What It Is That We Don't Want To Know About Ourselves, Yet. They Will Point Us To Our Freedom Every Time.

A Thought Is Harmless Unless We Believe It. It’s Not Our Thoughts, But Our Attachment To Our Thoughts, That Causes Suffering. Attaching To A Thought Means Believing That It’s True, Without Inquiring. A Belief Is A Thought That We’ve Been Attaching To, Often For Years.

My Life Is A Contribution.

If I Think The Environment In The World Needs To Be Cleaned Up, Let Me Clean Up My Own Environment. Let Me Clean Up The Environment In My Head - Let Me Work With That Pollution And That Ecosystem.

Nothing Comes Ahead Of Its Time, And Nothing Ever Happened That Didn't Need To Happen.

The Only Thing You Fear Is The Unreality That You Yourself Have Invented.

Even Breathing Is A Contribution.

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.

I Think That's The Trick: Wanting What I Have.

Do You Know Anyone Who Hasn't Changed His Mind? This Door Was A Tree, Then It Will Be Firewood For Someone, Then It Will Return To Air And Earth. We're All Like That, Constantly Changing. It's Simply Honest To Report That You've Changed Your Mind When You Have. When You're Afraid Of What People Will Think If You Speak Honestly, That's Where You Become Confused.

Your Parents Are Your Projection-nothing More.

So What Is It With Your Mother That You Haven't Worked Out Yet?

When Your Mind Opens, The Whole World Falls Into Place.

If I Think That Someone Else Is Causing My Problem, I'm Insane.

I Love The World, Because I Love The Mind That Created The World.

Every (stressful Thought) Is A Variation On A Single Theme: This Shouldn't Be Happening. I Shouldn't Be Having This Experience. God Is Unjust. Life Isn't Fair.

Suffering Over Things That Have Happened To Us Is Nothing More Than An Argument With The Past.

You Might Believe That It's Only For Their Own Good, But How Does It Feel When You Try To Manipulate The People You Love? Are You Teaching Them That Your Love Is Conditional? Maybe Through Inquiry We Can Find Another Way.

The End Of Suffering Happens In This Very Moment, Whether You're Watching A Terrorist Attack Or Doing The Dishes. And Compassion Begins At Home. Because I Don't Believe My Thoughts, Sadness Can't Exist. That's How I Can Go To The Depths Of Anyone's Suffering, If They Invite Me, And Take Them By The Hand And Walk Them Out Of It Into The Sunlight Of Reality. I've Taken That Walk Myself.

I Have An Expression I Say A Lot: I'm In A Hurry. There's Suffering On This Planet That Is So Easy To Break Through If The Mind Is Open To Doing So.

If Your Beliefs Are Stressful And You Question Them, You Come To See That They Aren't True - Whereas Prior To Questioning, You Absolutely Believe Them. How Can You Live In Joy When You're Believing Thoughts That Bring On Sadness, Frustration, Anger, Alienation, And Loneliness?

The Greatest Stock Market You Can Invest In Is Yourself. Finding This Truth Is Better Than Finding A Gold Mine.

If You Are Mentally Somewhere Else, You Miss Real Life

When They Attack You And You Notice That You Love Them With All Your Heart, Your Work Is Done.

Stress Is An Alarm Clock That Lets You Know You're Attached To Something Not True For You.

Sometimes The Concept You're Questioning Makes More Sense To Ask Just The Second One And Not The First One.

When You’re Focused Outside And Believe That Your Problem Is Caused By Someone Else, Rather Than By Your Attachment To The Story You’re Believing In The Moment, Then You Are Your Own Victim, And The Situation Appears To Be Hopeless.

I Am A Lover Of What Is, Not Because I'm A Spiritual Person, But Because It Hurts When I Argue With Reality. We Can Know That Reality Is Good Just As It Is, Because When We Argue With It, We Experience Tension And Frustration. We Don't Feel Natural Or Balanced. When We Stop Opposing Reality, Action Becomes Simple, Fluid, Kind, And Fearless.

Everyone Wants Peace, Inside And Outside, And We Would All Have It If We Knew How. Now We Know How. It Begins With You.

I Have Never Experienced A Stressful Feeling That Wasn't Caused By Attaching To An Untrue Thought. Behind Every Uncomfortable Feeling, There's A Thought That Isn't True For Us.

Uncomfortable Feeling

You Can’t Have Your Daughter As Long As You Have A Concept Of Her. When You Get Rid Of The Concept, You Meet Your Daughter For The First Time. That’s The Way This Works.

Hurt Feelings Or Discomfort Of Any Kind Cannot Be Cause By Another Person. No One Outside Me Can Hurt Me. That’s Not A Possibility. It’s Only When I Believe A Stressful Thought That I Get Hurt. And I’m The One Who’s Hurting Me By Believing What I Think. This Is Very Good News, Because It Means That I Don’t Have To Get Someone Else To Stop Hurting Me. I’m The One Who Can Stop Hurting Me. It’s Within My Power.

I Really Believe I'm Right. So, Tell Me, Where Am I Wrong?

Do You Want To Be Right More Than You Want To Know The Truth? It's The Truth That Set Me Free. Acceptance, Peace, And Less Attachment To A World Of Suffering Are All Effects Of Doing The Work. They're Not The Goals. Do The Work For The Love Of Freedom, For The Love Of Truth.

Every Mind Deserves To Be Free.

People Who Believe Their Unquestioned Thoughts Cannot See What Is Obvious And Directly In Front Of Their Faces At All Times, Because They Are Invested In What They Believe To Be True. As Long As They Live Out Of An Unquestioned Mind, They Must Continue To Argue With What They Believe Is Happening Rather Than The Reality Of What Is Really Happening.

I Love Not Rushing The Process. Mind Doesn't Shift Until It Does, And When It Does Shift, It's Right On Time, Not One Second Too Late Or Too Soon. People Are Like Seeds Waiting To Sprout. We Can't Be Pushed Ahead Of Our Own Understanding.

We All Begin To Do What We Can Do, Just Like We're Doing Now, To Clean Up The Planet And To Find Solutions Rather Than Fight. It Just Happens Everywhere.

The Work Always Leaves You With Less Of A Story. Who Would You Be Without Your Story? You Never Know Until You Inquire. There Is No Story That Is You Or That Leads To You. Every Story Leads Away From You. Turn It Around; Undo It. You Are What Exists Before All Stories. You Are What Remains When The Story Is Understood.

You Can't Drop Concepts. You Can Only Shine A Little Flashlight On Them As You Do Inquiry, An You See That What You Thought Was True Wasn't. And When The Truth Is Seen, There's Nothing You Can Do To Make The Lie True For You Again.

It's A Wonderful World When You Have What You Want At All Times.

Thinking That What You Want Equals What's Best For You Is A Dead End.

When You Do The Work, You See Who You Are By Seeing Who You Think Other People Are. Eventually You Come To See That Everything Outside You Is A Reflection Of Your Own Thinking. You Are The Storyteller, The Projector Of All Stories, And The World Is The Projected Image Of Your Thoughts.

Do You Want To Meet The Love Of Your Life? Look In The Mirror.

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.

Here’s How A Child Listens: You Tell Him Something, And He Puts His Own Interpretation On What You Said. That’s What He Hears. No One Has Ever Heard You.

If You Realized How Beautiful You Are, You Would Fall At Your Own Feet.

Seeking Love Keeps You From The Awareness That You Already Have It—that You Are It.

When You Act Like A Teacher, It's Usually Because You're Afraid To Be The Student.

Every Mind Deserves To Be Free. When The Mind Is Free, That's The End Of Suffering.

It's Not Easy To Find Your Own Way When You Believe That You Need Love, Approval, Appreciation, Or Anything From Your Family. It's Particularly Hard When You Want Them To See Things Your Way.

How Do I Know That I Don’t Need What I Want? I Don’t Have It.

Law Of Attraction

To Think That I Know What's Best For Anyone Else Is To Be Out Of My Business. Even In The Name Of Love, It Is Pure Arrogance, And The Result Is Tension, Anxiety, And Fear. Do I Know What's Right For Me? That Is My Only Business. Let Me Work With That Before I Try To Solve Problems For You.

The Only And Dearest Relationship Is The Mind's Relationship With Itself.

Low Self-esteem Is Not Possible When You Understand The Nature Of Everything. Depression Is Not Possible. The Universe Is Absolutely Friendly.

When I Am Perfectly Clear, What Is Is What I Want.

One Morning In February 1986, Out Of Nowhere, I Experienced A Realization. In An Instant, I Discovered That When I Believed My Stressful Thoughts, I Suffered, But When I Questioned Them, I Didn't Suffer.

The Way To Truly Help Someone Is For Me To Not Get Immersed In Their Suffering.

There's No Nightmare You Can't Wake Yourself Up From.

Once The Mind Is Met With Understanding, It Can Always Find Its Way Home.

For Me, Everything Is God. Everything And Everyone. So It Was Just, God Needs Me Now, Now, Now.

When We Stop Opposing Reality, Action Becomes Simple, Fluid, Kind, And Fearless.

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.

Important Relationships

Peace Doesn't Require Two People; It Requires Only One. It Has To Be You. The Problem Begins And Ends There.

If You Question Your Thoughts About When Your Son Is Not Healthy, You Come To See That You're The Only One You're Worried About. It's Like Without Him, You're Not Happy - So It's All About Your Happiness. You Want Him To Live For You - For Your Happiness.

In The Fall, You Don't Grieve Because The Leaves Are Falling And Dying. You Say, "isn't It Beautiful!" Well, We're The Same Way. There Are Seasons. We All Fall Sooner Or Later. It's All So Beautiful. And Our Concepts, Without Investigation, Keep Us From Knowing This. It's Beautiful To Be A Leaf, To Be Born, To Fall, To Give Way To The Next, To Become Food For The Roots. It's Life, Always Changing Its Form And Always Giving Itself Completely. We All Do Our Part. No Mistake.

If You Put Your Hand Into A Fire, Does Anyone Have To Tell You To Move It? Do You Have To Decide? No: When Your Hand Starts To Burn, It Moves. You Don’t Have To Direct It; The Hand Moves Itself. In The Same Way, Once You Understand, Through Inquiry, That An Untrue Thought Causes Suffering, You Move Away From It.

No One Has Ever Been Able To Control His Thinking, Although People May Tell The Story Of How They Have. I Don't Let Go Of My Thoughts-i Meet Them With Understanding. Then They Let Go Of Me.

When You're Comfortable And Secure, It's Not Enough. The Mind Doesn't Stop There Because It Has To Continue To Focus Itself As This Body, So It Moves To Pleasure. And Pleasure Really Is A Non-existent Thing. When We're Experiencing Pleasure, We're Trying To Hold Onto It As It Leaves, So It Really Isn't Pleasure. Pleasure Is Pain Because We're Grasping.

That's Huge: Just To Clean Up One Ecosystem.

Everything Happens For Me, Not To Me.

When The Creative Mind Is Unleashed And Understands Its True Nature, It's Unlimited. There's Nothing You Cannot Do.

When You Say Or Do Anything To Please, Get, Keep, Influence, Or Control Anyone Or Anything, Fear Is The Cause And Pain Is The Result.

Questioning Our Stressful Thoughts, We Come To See They're Not True.

I Do Whatever I Can To Serve Peace. My Job Is The End Of Suffering.

There's No Way That A Clear Mind Can Live An Unhappy Life.

Just Keep Coming Home To Yourself, You Are The One Who You've Been Waiting For.

The Best Way Of Leading People Is To Let Them Find Their Own Way.

Thought The Mind Can Justify Itself Faster Than The Speed Of Light, It Can Be Stopped Through The Act Of Writing.

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.

Ultimately, I Am All I Can Know.

It's Important To Realize That Inquiry Is About Noticing, Not About Dropping The Thought... Inquiry Is Not About Getting Rid Of Thoughts; It's About Realizing What's True For You, Through Awareness And Unconditional Self-love. Once You See The Truth, The Thought Lets Go Of You, Not The Other Way Around.

It's Difficult To Seek Other People's Love. It's Deadly. In Seeking It You Lose What Is Genuine. This Is The Prison We Create For Ourselves As We Seek What We Already Have.

I Teach People To Question Their Thinking, And This Changes Their World.

The Ultimate And Dearest - And, Again, Only - Relationship We Have Is The Relationship We Have With Our Thoughts.

It's Not The Problem That Causes Our Suffering; It's Our Thinking About The Problem.

Sadness Isn't A Natural Response.

I Am The Perpetrator Of My Suffering - But Only All Of It.

You Don't Get To Vote On What Is. Have You Noticed?

You Either Believe What You Think Or You Question It. There’s No Other Choice.

Realizing That People Should Lie When They Do Makes Me A Little More Open-minded, A Little More Tolerant, When My Child Or My Partner Lies.

Until You Look Forward To All Criticism, Your Work's Not Done.

Pay Close Attention To The Particular Thoughts You Use To Deprive Yourself Of Happiness.

When We're Not Defending And Justifying, And We're Being Very Still, Our Answers Can And Do Shock Us.

Nothing Outside You Can Ever Give You What You're Looking For.

No One Can Give You Freedom But You.

Freedom Of Expression

Until You Can Love What Is - Everything, Including The Apparent Violence And Craziness - You're Separate From The World, And You'll See It As Dangerous And Frightening.

Trending Author

George H. W. Bush

Jacques Prevert

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Category