Byron Katie Quotes

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

I write to discover what I think.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

I write to find out what I think.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others