Byron Katie Quotes

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your external circumstances at that moment - where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing - and your thoughts and feelings. Can you feel how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what is? When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are, right within ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the more we can reflect into the outer situation.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.