Can image be injured?

Participant: I’m trying to get something that I cannot get. That is can image be injured?

Katie: Do you have an injury in your mind?

Participant: Yes.

Katie: So, is that image injured? How can image be injured?

How can nothing be injured?

Do you see an image of an automobile just hit a pedestrian?

Participant: Yes.

Katie: How is it possible the image to be injured?

You can see it flying to the air, the car rolling over it.

It looks like an image, and it looks like a woman or a man. It looks like a car.

It looks like a woman, she is breeding.

And let’s say that it really happened to me.

And I’m telling you the story.

So, is that image imagination or real?

Participant: It’s imagined.

Katie: So, when you see an image of you anytime, what you believe to be you in the past with an injury, is that injury? Is that you?

Participant: So, when I see myself having an injury in future, is that future image the same thing?

Katie: It is. That’s future. That’s not I, that I is not injured.

It is something to just really to get still in because as you contemplate it,

it becomes impossible to fear future.

– Byron Katie

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