Byron Katie Quotes about Children

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The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it.

The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don't know how to stop.

Byron Katie

Change, Children, Struggle

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

Byron Katie

Teacher, Children, Happy Life

Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.104, ReadHowYouWant.com

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

Byron Katie

Family, Children, Parent

Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.

Byron Katie

Children, Moving, Space

Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.102, ReadHowYouWant.com

So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children.

Byron Katie

Children, Loneliness, Believe

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

Byron Katie

Children, Interpretation, Said

Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

Byron Katie

Children, Lying, People

"The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.

Byron Katie

Children, Parent, Sake

"The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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.

Byron Katie

Children, Teaching, Our Children

Source: rayhemachandra.com