The Work of Byron Katie

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

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren’t true - whereas prior to questioning, you believe them. How can you live in joy when you’re believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

Nothing you believe is true. To understand this is freedom.

When I believed my thoughts, I suffered. When I questioned my thoughts, I woke up. That changed my reality, how I see the world.

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal. They’re like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. Thoughts arise like that, and we can make friends with them. Would you argue with a raindrop?

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

No one has ever been angry at another human being. We’re only angry at our story of them.

When they criticize you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always.