Byron Katie Quotes

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Who would you be without your story?

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

There is no self.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.

To be rather than to seem.

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

You are what exists before all stories.

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

He’s more myself than I am

To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.