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Byron Katie

lines on the record: 67
first: 2019-02-20
most recent: 2019-02-20
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Because it hurts me to harm another human being. It's mercy. But then give me some way to deal with my mind so that I don't do it again. And that way is self-realization, God realization. And the work is the way to wake up.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, absolutely. If I hurt you and I hurt someone else and I hurt someone else, have you ever heard someone, you know how that feels?”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I say that if they question what they believe, then they're rehabilitated. And then when they come out, they're different human beings.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely not. Oh my goodness, you know, no one would harm another human being if they were not confused. No one would kill another human being if they were not believing their thoughts. If someone walked up and just”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. You know, I have to tell you over, one of the most moving things I've ever seen in my life was I watched you not long ago. You were facing, there was a crowd. It looked like all around you and you had your arm in the air and you said, I am a free woman. And you turn behind you and he says, I am a free. And it just rang from my head to my toe. a sail with his head. And when you believe your thoughts, that's hell. And you put a Buddhist monk in there and you shut the door. He says, thank you. Yeah, I got that. But this man that you lock up, you know, it's, I'm a terrible human being. I did it wrong. There's no hope for me. No one understands that is hell.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, can you imagine a world that is so ancient that they still kill each other They still hate each other. Well, you know, it's for me, that's an ancient world and we're all just kind of just moving on to what you...”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Faster, you know, the work is for people in a hurry, you know, for people suffering that are in a hurry. And yes, that's true. It's the best we had going for us on this planet. But it is ready, you know, this is a whole other paradigm that we are stepping into. And basically, as we believe our thoughts, we are going to fight and that is slow.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is it true? Can you absolutely know that it's true? How do you react when you believe that thought? What happens? The fourth question, who would you be without that thought? And then turn the concept that you're inquiring of around and find opposites to see what is as true or truer and just to notice is the concept that you're dealing with. Is it peaceful or is it stressful? And if it's stressful, then I in my job is to invite the world to the work. And the work again has no power. It is each of us individually. It is our power in our own ancestors.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If I stay, I can no longer say he hit me and act shocked and surprised. I mean, he's doing his job. You know, the dog bites Some dogs do, some dogs. This dog bites. So he hits me. I'm not shocked or surprised. I hit me at that point. But then we go out into the world and we say he hit me, he hit me, and we all agree the world is a terrible place to live. We're not taking responsibility for our own self. And so the clearer we get as we question what we believe about life and people and ourselves, the clearer we get, the kinder we become. And if a man.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no. It's like if I'm just shocked and he hit me, then I need to do something about that. And, you know, do I want to live with someone who is going to hit another human being that way? So if I stay the next time he hits me, he didn't hit me. I hit me. It's like his job is to hit. That's a man or a woman who hits people. That's his job. Everything has its job. Everything has its job. His job is to hit women if we use like a male in this case. Yeah.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I get the world to agree that this is a terrible thing and no one stops to consider it's over. And if he hits me again, it's over. If he hits me again, it's over. And eventually I'm out the door. As soon as I can get to the dorm. So you're not saying.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The mind begins to think they shouldn't have done that. How dare they do that? And the mind shows the hit over and over and over. It's like he hit me once, but I use in his name to suffer. I use that image hits of him hitting me. And all of a sudden I'm a victim. And oh, and oh, and then I get in your mind.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not crazy anymore. It's over. That is a state of grace. They hit me and it's over. Of course I'm grateful it's over. Now here is where the pain begins.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's never enough, yes. So, how is it possible that someone could take advantage of me? You know, if someone took their fist and they didn't like something I said and they just hit me as hard as they could and I knocked me clear against a wall. I began to laugh”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, and what good is integrity if it doesn't bring clarity? And clarity, you know, the truth is just, oh my goodness, it's the truth that sets us free.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would say I will give you this, and this is the last time I'm giving you money. And see, I couldn't even say that because it may not be. But I say, I'm giving you this. And it is my hope that it is the last time you'll ask me for money again. And then the next time they come back, if I still feel not to give them the money, then I say, I care about you and no. No has two parts. We tell him the truth and then the no. It's like, I care about you. No”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And to give them money as though if I give them this, it'll be over. You know, because you're living out of secret life and that's painful.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and they would be entitled to their own opinion. They could respect who, I mean, they have a right to not respect or to respect. And you would be aware of that. Who would you be without the thought they don't respect me? And so let's turn it around. They don't respect me.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm not asking you not to believe it. I'm simply asking you just for a moment To witness who you would be without the thought they don't respect me.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and who would you be without the thought my family doesn't respect me? I mean, imagine yourself with them. Imagine yourself.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, if I thought another person should value me, then I've got a trump, I've got a problem. You know, people can't value me if they don't. Can you value someone when you don't? It's not possible.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, in her opinion, in the mind gives her all of the proof, all of the images, compares them with other men, etc, and she turns her off. That's no kind of sex life. But if she thinks it and turns it around, and then to see what is as to or truer, not to change a person's mind, that's not what the work is about, but to realize what is as true or truer, to enlighten the mind.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you should, and And that is war, and it belongs on paper to question it, then it just leaves love. But all I was experiencing is they have a problem. I don't. I mean, that's done what I thought was the best.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I call it honest yeses and honest notes. All right. So if someone said it's like if I'm Oprah, for example, hypothetically, what would those people, what are those people say? So just be all of them rolled into one and let's have a conversation”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I never suffered I was sitting there waiting to see what was true, the difference between reality and fantasy until human beings get the difference between reality and sanity. There's not going to be any peace.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I came to understand that my daughter was into drugs and alcohol. I just bought her a brand new, gorgeous car. And here she is. I'm seeing this, you know, drinking alcoholically and driving, but she would leave and I would wait up for her. And Obra, I would sit in a chair like this and I would imagine her dead on the highway. I would imagine her raped. I would imagine her killing other human beings. I would imagine her in the car rolled over out. We lived in the desert and rolled over with screaming for help and no one there. It was all in my imaginations with all of the images and all of the just as strong as they could possibly be.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, and my amazing daughter was full of resentment. I was so full of self-hatred and I took it out on my children and it was not an easy life for them living with a mother that was so bitter. And when I had this experience waking up to reality,”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then you wake up to reality. You wake up, you know, this is about the end of suffering. You know, Oprah, if heaven were the most marvelous, marvelous place, everyone wants to go to heaven or people that do and believe in it. If you died and went to heaven where everything was perfect, there was no suffering, there was no sorrow, there was no misery. If you died and went to heaven and you took. What you're believing to heaven with you, where would you be? On earth. So I woke up and I discovered heaven, I'm in heaven and I am inviting everyone to it, and I can't take you there. But people who answer these four questions and turn around and sit and get very still can take them there.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How do you react? What happens to your life, your entire life when you believe that thought? I mean, who would you be without that thought?”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's like what we are calling sadness or sadness, I invite people to question that. Is it sadness or is it love? And to get really still are those feelings sadness or are they love like when a loved one dies? And to get really honest about it, maybe it's love. Maybe it's not sadness.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a magical world. And then if you get still and you go back and you look at how your body really was and you look back, was that pain? Was it really pain or was it something else? I don't know what it was. I now don't know what it was.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I was blind so, so blind. I had an eye disease, a Fuchs dystrophy, very painful disease. And I continued with a full schedule. I traveled all over the world. I fell downstaircases, flights of stairs, bumped into walls. I had amazing experiences. Now I've got two cornea transplants. They said that couldn't happen, but my husband, Stephen, Stephen Mitchell, he's... Most amazing man. He googled until he found a way. And I was like the 40th Yeah. And oh my goodness. And people say, are you going, have you rejected the transplants? And I'm never going to reject the transplants. They can reject me. I'm certainly not going to reject them, but they have a right to reject me. Everything has a right to its life.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there you have it. It's a totally selfish thing. It's like don't die. It doesn't matter. I'm more comfortable when you live. That is so agoic. And that is what you're being painful.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right because you're arguing with what is now why is it a better thing that my mother died? She no longer suffers. I don't have to watch her suffer. But I want to watch her.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, let's look at that if your mother has pancreatic cancer. Why is she better off? Or the baby that dies, that we say they haven't lived out their life? Of course they've lived out their life. That was their life from here to there. That was their life. It wasn't too late or too early.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you feel so connected. My mother died. I'm so sad turned around. My mother died. I am so happy for her. I'm so happy for me.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't believe my stressful thoughts. I don't believe the thoughts that used to stress me out. For example, back to my mother when she died, like the work is for questions and a turnaround after a person has questioned what they have believed their stressful thoughts that they have believed. Then, for example, they might think first, my mother died, my mother died, my mother died. But you question what you believe and it's... My mother died. And it's a celebration.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Contentment. Yes. And self-realization until it's lived, there's no power in it. It has to be lived, loved, lived. And I don't, there isn't anything more powerful than that.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there's a balance, and it isn't what people maybe would consider joy to be, like happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. Not tippity-doo-doc. Yeah, and that happens also, but there's a balance, a peace.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And when a mind can no longer identify with a body, when the mind says move, stand up, sit down, and the body won't do it. It quickly discovers its own game and there's no way to identify any longer. So it's everything.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My goodness, you know, I'm still waiting for her to die when she died. I was holding her hand looking directly into her eyes and she was there and then she wasn't and I continued to look directly into her eyes to see death and it never happened. It was all in my mind and because I don't mind death. I see death as a wonderful thing. I see life as a wonderful thing. So, you know when people are frightened of death versus saying it was...”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't Oh, it was. I'm so full of love. There's no room for it. Oh, God. My goodness, I dropped my whole schedule and I went to live with her. She had pancreatic cancer and I stayed with her.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unsadness, resentment, anger. But, you know, I cry a lot. I'm moved to tears. But not suffering, not to the person. Genuine. No suffering.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I haven't experienced that. You know, I'm very open to suffering and I haven't experienced sadness, but I'm very open to sadness. And I'm very open to anger, but you have to believe your stressful thoughts before you can experience those emotions.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. And if anyone feels lonely, separate, then ask yourself mentally whose business are you in? And it can just bring you right back to where you really are. And that's where the change can take place.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Defense is war. And I say all war belongs on paper. That's where it belongs. So we can look at it and question those thoughts we're believing.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And who did it? I did the moment I defended. So we can discuss any shift or I can discuss any shift, like I can give you my experience, I can give you my education, my educated view if one happens to be there on the topic. And that's all I've got.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I would say change it. Change it all of your power. Change it right here, right now, because that's the only opportunity you have right here, right now. So you change it. And if that doesn't work, Then open your mind and see a higher way Because it's got to be.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that's right. And we can have all kinds of thoughts about it. It's do we believe them or not? Right. That's the key.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All the listeners to just close their eyes and look at their life just the way they live it at the market, at home, doing the dishes, whatever it is, going to work, walking, to look back at their life only drop the thought who would you be without your story just to drop the thought and look at your life and you see like a yes because”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source