Byron Katie Suffering Quotations

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.

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.

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

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

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

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

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

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

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

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.

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