# Loving What Is

- Author: [Byron Katie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/byron-katie.md)
- Quotes: 54
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/byron-katie/loving-what-is

## Quotes

> If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror.

> Would you rather be right or free?

> Thoughts aren’t personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?

> The last story: God is everything, God is good.

> The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.

> No one has ever been angry at another human being—we’re only angry at our story of them.

> Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly—no mistake.

> In my experience, it takes only one person to have a successful relationship, and that's me.

> Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you’ve attached to something not true for you.

> There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled.

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

> Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

> Ultimately, I am all I can know.

> Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

> Until you look forward to criticism, your Work’s not done.

> I could find only three kinds of business in the world—mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?

> Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

> Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

> We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

> What is is. You don’t get a vote. Haven’t you noticed?

> Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it’s over.

> You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

> The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

> We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.

> There are no physical problems—only mental ones.

> The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.

> When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

> We say to others only what we need to hear.

> You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.

> How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.

> Gratitude is what we are without a story.

> Everything happens for me, not to me.

> Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless.

> You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.

> An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

> Personalities don’t love—they want something.

> Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.

> Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.

> Sanity doesn’t suffer, ever.

> No one can hurt me—that’s my job.

> We are entering the dimension where we have control - the inside.

> I don’t let go of concepts—I question them. Then they let go of me.

> If I think you’re my problem, I’m insane.

> I’m a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

> Is it true?
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> Can you absolutely know that it's true?
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> How do you react when you believe that thought?
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> Who would you be without the thought?

> “I don’t know” is my favorite position.

> When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time.

> When I walk into a room, I know that everyone in it loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.

> When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

> For me, reality is God, because it rules.

> If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.”

> You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

> Forgiveness is realizing that what you thought happened, didn’t.

> The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.