Brian Young

“I wasn’t always able to live the advice that I so generously held out for others to live. When I realized this, I found myself on equal ground with the people I had judged. I saw that my philosophy wasn’t so easy for any of us to live. I saw that we’re all doing the best we can.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

“When my children ask me what they should do, I say, “I don’t know, honey.” Or, “Here’s what I did in a similar situation, and it worked for me. And you can always know that I’m here to listen and that I’m always going to love you, whatever decision you make. You’ll know what to do. And also, sweetheart, you can’t do it wrong. I promise you that.” I finally learned to tell my children the truth.”
― Byron Katie, Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie

“No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s only when I believe a story that I get hurt.”
― Byron Katie, Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie

“You’d probably start laughing because you’d realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.”
― David D. Burns, When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life