My mother became a believer, ...

My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.
 Byron Katie

Quotes from the same author

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
 Byron Katie
So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?
 Byron Katie
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.
 Byron Katie
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
 Byron Katie
The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.
 Byron Katie