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
Everything happens for me, not to me.
As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.
When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.
If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first
Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.
The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.
Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.
After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."