A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.
Everything happens for me, not to me.
I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.
Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do.
Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience.
I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.
I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!
Lack of understanding is always painful.
Freedom is our birthright.
If you question your thoughts about when your son is not healthy, you come to see that you're the only one you're worried about. It's like without him, you're not happy - so it's all about your happiness. You want him to live for you - for your happiness.
I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.
Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.
They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am an expert in" whatever area we're talking about. Or, "No, you are wrong! And I think you're rude!" Or anything like that, and if we don't say it out loud, maybe we think it, but that's stressful. The moment I've defended, in any way, I've started the war.
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.
I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world.
What we believe, we see.
I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.
The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."
Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not.
And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.
When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.
