Quote from Byron Katie:
The Work reveals that what you think shouldn’t have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn’t mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don’t know how to stop.
Simimal Quotes:
Richard Branson
Irreverence ran on both sides of our family…my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
Byron Katie
What I call “doing the dishes” is the practice of loving the task in front of you. Your inner voice guides you all day long to do simple things such as brush your teeth, drive to work, call your friend, or do the dishes. Even though it’s just another story, it’s a very short story, and when you follow the direction of the voice, the story ends. We are really alive when we live as simply as that—open, waiting, trusting, and loving to do what appears in front of us now…What we need to do unfolds before us, always—doing the dishes, paying the bills, picking up the children’s socks, brushing our teeth. We never receive more than we can handle, and there is always just one thing to do. Whether you have ten dollars or ten million dollars, life never gets more difficult than that.
Domergue
Some people study all their lives, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.
Byron Katie
The Work is: Judge your neighbor, write it down, ask four questions, turn it around. That’s it. Simple stuff.
James William Fulbright
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
Byron Katie
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
Byron Katie
As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
Seng-ts'an
Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.
Byron Katie
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.
Patrick Delany
Think of what you speak, but speak not all that you think.
Brigham Young
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions that we do in our own?