Byron Katie Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Suffering, Moments

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2014

• As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

  Byron Katie

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2002.

• You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

  Byron Katie

  Strength, Being Strong, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2011

• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Mean, Attachment

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Single Mom, Simple

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Reality, Perfect

• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Moving, Fire, Hands

• It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, Suffering, Causes

• If you argue against reality you will suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Reality, Suffering, Arguing

• When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

  Byron Katie

  Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings, Suffering

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are”, p.275, Random House

• Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

  Byron Katie

  Suffering, Stories, Causes

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2011

• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Loss, Earthquakes, Mind

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Suffering, Ends

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

• I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

  Byron Katie

  Life, Suffering, Awakening

• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Freedom, Acceptance

• Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Past, Suffering

• An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Suffering, World

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2011

• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Suffering, Realization

  "How I Learned To Stop Suffering" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

• The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

  Byron Katie

  Giving, Suffering, Causes

  Twitter post from Mar 05, 2013

• The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

  Byron Katie

  Suffering, Way, Helping

• Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Suffering, Happens

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2013

• Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

  Byron Katie

  Suffering, Blame, Persons

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014

• Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

  Byron Katie

  Pain, Stress, Self

• I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Suffering, Ends

  "Byron Katie Spiritual Leader. Story UNteller. Ambassador of Inner Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.awaken.com. September 30, 2013.

• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Taken, Sadness

  "Compassion: The Less You Suffer, the Kinder You Naturally Become" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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