Notes and Insights from Byron Katie’s Euro Tour ✨😍 Part 2

June 23, 2018

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 2 - Vienna

🔸 You can't hurt me. What I believe about you can hurt me.

🔸 Is my mother or father guilty?
No.
I'm the one who believed it. I'm creating my world.

🔸 We blame others for the fact that we’re asleep, and we get angry at them for it. – I blame my parents that I’m asleep.

🔸 If I'm judging you, whose thoughts are they? – They’re mine. I’m responsible for my thoughts.

🔸 War isn't necessary.

🔸 If I'm enlightened on it, I can change. If I'm not enlightened on it, I can't, because I'm blind. – If I’m conscious and awake about a particular issue, I can change it. If I’m not conscious of it, I can’t change it — because I’m blind.

🔸 I hurt me by comparing nothing (images) to something (reality) – this is a confusion. I'm in a movie. I watch it and I can't see this person. – I hurt myself when I compare nothing (images in my mind) to something (reality). That’s confusion, that’s misunderstanding. I’m inside a movie, watching it — and I can’t even see the real person in front of me.

🔸 Guilt – "I want to kill her" – where does it come from?
Katie: Well, you see the images. – The feeling of guilt: “I want to kill her” — where does that come from? Katie: You’re watching images.

(Here Katie was working with a woman who was getting irritated with her daughter. When the girl messed up the room, she would get so angry she felt like she wanted to kill her. Then guilt would come for even having those thoughts. Katie explained that this violent wish was not about the daughter herself, but about the images in the woman’s mind. The mind pulls images from the past and the future, she believes them, reacts to them — and then anger and guilt arise. It’s not the present moment, it’s the images.)

🔸 I'm at home with this world. – I feel at home in this world. Katie said this, and I loved it. I also want to feel at home in this world 😍😍😍

🔸 I'm imagination. I imagine myself. What doesn’t live, can’t die.

🔸 Without the past, in this moment in time — am I okay?

🔸 In the present, who am I? – In the now, in this moment, who am I?

🔸 I'm receiving all those gifts, because I'm alive.

(This was the turnaround of a stressful thought: “I’m receiving all these gifts because I’m going to die soon.” Katie was working with a woman who had cancer. She had received a car as a gift, and she connected every gift to her illness — believing people gave her presents because she would soon die. Through The Work, she realized her suffering wasn’t coming from the illness, but from thoughts of the past (when she was told she had cancer) and the future (that she might die or suffer). Because these thoughts were looping in her mind, she wasn’t living in the present and couldn’t enjoy the moment. Through inquiry, she discovered that in the present moment she felt perfectly fine — even very healthy.)

🔸 With the inquiry I live with “Don’t know mind.” I follow the simple directions.

(Katie meant that when we inquire our thoughts, our mind clears. We open fully to the world and to the present moment. In this “don’t-know” space, we don’t know what will happen next, or what we will do. From there, we simply follow the simple, quiet guidance that shows up when the mind is still and clear.)

🔸 Fear is blind. It can’t see.

💛 I hope you enjoy reading my notes. And, 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.