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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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“Yes, that your stomach could rotate. You know, tears could happen. Depression happens. And we become unkind and we wonder what is the matter with us. You know, I don't want to talk that way to people. I don't want to hurt people. And we're striking out. And then the mind, how we react when we think that thought, the mind attacks. And then it comes back and attacks you. And then guilt happens. Correct. And so it is this swerve. And how do I react when I believed the thought I compulsively overate? I drank. All these addictions kicked in. It's how we react when we believe these stressful thoughts. So then the fourth question. Who would you be without that thought and then just to sit and get still and don't change anything? And I invite”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they might answer yes again, because the mind immediately is giving them all the proof and all the images. That's how the mind works. Right.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's an honest answer. And that's all that's required is the willingness to answer the questions. That's all. So the answer would be yes. And I say, can you absolutely know that it's true that you are worthless?”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The first question is is it true? For example, if I had the thought he doesn't care about me. The first question is Is it true? The second question can I absolutely know that it's true he doesn't care about me. The third question How do you react when you believe the thought he doesn't care about me? Well, the whole world is born out of that. You know, maybe I become angry or I become sad.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing, no identification, then the mind hit. And I saw that the mind wasn't true. And I saw that people believed their thoughts. But it simply wasn't true for me. That doesn't mean that it's not true for them. So the first four, the work is four questions and a turnaround. So the first question, you're believing, for example,”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because who knew? Because you've been this depressed porphyry. Well, it was such a radical experience, it was such a change that even my children. They said, Can you help me? And I said, You know, I don't even know what this is, but what I can tell you is, you know, whatever it is, it's yours. And so actually people would come live with me. I thought maybe it was the air, the food, the, you know, I had no idea what it was. I had to find references as I went along. And people gave me my references.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My family did I knew what insanity was, and I knew I frightened people with this awakening. And so I continue to learn balance.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I can't believe the thoughts that are happening that tell me that. If someone said, Katie, you're worthless. You know, I realize how painful it is to believe that about someone, yourself or anyone. So if someone says, Katie, I don't care about you. I just think, I hope they do better. I know how painful that is To see another human being as less than you see yourself. And if someone says Katie, I love you. I think, oh my goodness, isn't that person doing well? They love”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I am whatever I believe me to be. And then when you question that, Oprah, it doesn't leave much. If it leaves anything at all for me, it's gratitude. How can I help? It's gratitude and surface”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The mind The mind hit. And in that moment, I saw that what I was believing, what I was being hit with was not true for me. Because I had just had the experience It wasn't And then in that moment, the world instantly happened. There were walls and ceilings and sky and floor and you saw everything.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because the ones I really care about you, isn't this a wonderful world? I love seeing you, all these thoughts. I love my children. Those thoughts are working for us. And who cares if they're true or not? They're working for us. If you're in a wonderful dream, you want someone to wake you up? But if you're in a nightmare, don't you want someone to wake you up? Well, that's what this work is for. That's what the work is for”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. But you know, there's, I've come to see that there's, One mind, as people say, and I've really come to realize that, and I've come to see also in that one mind that there are no new stressful thoughts. So if we all or just one always speaking to myself.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was a God I cursed. I really blame God for my condition also, along with everyone and everything else. And I just came to see differently. I had no teacher. I didn't have a religion, nothing.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tell us what happened. Well, actually, as I lay asleep on the floor one morning, actually a cockroach crawled over my foot and I opened my eyes and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I just simply can't describe. But the thing that is really important that I realized is that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered But when I question my thoughts, I don't suffer and I've come to see that this is true for every human being.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My children don't respect me. They should mind me. And it was the world doesn't understand. People really don't understand my suffering, my pain. And, you know, victims are violent people I've come to see. And I was such a victim. And therefore violent, full of this, this hatred turned inward. Rage, rage. Rage.”
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“I was forty three. When this experience happened to me. And I had been suffering just deep, deep, deep depression, suicidal even, and agoraphobic. I couldn't leave my bedroom often for days and weeks other than just to go to the toilet. My hair would stick to me. It was a horrible way to live. I was well over 200 pounds and I was desperate. And later I found that simply it was the effect of believing my thinking, the thoughts that we're all thinking.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“About putting it in process on a daily basis. It's like Eckhart is what and the work is how? And we've had these masters throughout the centuries and centuries. But how do we do it? Well, the work is how.”
2019-02-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · Byron Katie: Set Yourself Free · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source