Notes and Insights from Byron Katie’s Euro Tour ✨😍 Part 1
I’m sharing with you the highlighted thoughts, insights, realizations, and Katie’s words that I collected during Byron Katie’s Euro Tour — in Vienna, Amsterdam, and Paris 😍😍😍😍
Wishing you many insights too ☀️☀️☀️
Part 1 - Vienna
🔸 1. There is suffering.
2. There is a cause of it – what you think and what you believe;
3. There is a way out of suffering;
4. And here is how – The Work
🔸 It’s not the situation itself, but what I think about the situation and what I believe about it — that is what causes my suffering.
🔸 If the war ends inside me, it ends in my world too.
🔸 If I can't love my thoughts, I can't love you.
🔸 Mind isn't an enemy.
🔸 What I thought happened – it didn't – and this is waking up to reality.
🔸 Meditate until it's shown to you.
🔸 "My mother doesn't love me" – "I'm not lovable" – my mother is a proof – whole identity builds.
If I believe the thought, “My mother doesn’t love me,” it creates another thought: “I am not lovable.” Then my mother becomes the proof, the evidence I use to justify that. Out of this, my whole identity about myself is built.
And then, I can no longer recognize who I really am if I am actually lovable and truly an object of love. The thought “my mother doesn’t love me” blocks me from experiencing love, as long as I believe it. Which means I take away from myself the chance to actually feel love.
🔸 Who would you be without the ego?
🔸 That's what we feel about people that we can't manage and manipulate – "I don't love her," "I hate her."
We dislike or even hate those people whom we cannot control and cannot manipulate — that’s exactly the way we feel toward them.
🔸 The only decision we need to make is to listen.
To listen and to follow. To listen and to trust.
🔸 Don't guess – how do you react? how did you react?
When answering questions, let’s not try to guess the answers. Just notice: How do I react? How did I react in that situation?
🔸 Am I doing The Work because I want to feel better or because I want to know the truth?
The purpose of The Work is to see the truth, to see what reality really is, to shine light on my false suffering and illusion. That is the main goal of The Work. If I use it only to feel better, then I’m manipulating the process.
🔸 "There is a suffering. There is a way out of suffering. There is a cause of suffering. If we don't understand, we repeat it. – That creates an illusion of time."
💛 As you read, was there a phrase or insight that felt especially true for you? Share it with me in the comments — I’d love to know which insight resonated with you the most.
P.S. 🌸 Sharing some photos from my Vienna tour with Byron Katie ✨🦋☀️
