Byron Katie Pain Quotations

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

Lack of understanding is always painful.

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.