Byron Katie
Byron Katie
Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie, is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie" or simply as "The Work". She is married to the writer and translator Stephen Mitchell. She is the founder of Byron Katie International, an organization that includes The School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth6 December 1942
CountryUnited States of America
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!
We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.
You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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.
That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
We fear only what we haven’t understood.
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.