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
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.
There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.
You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way, but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts will show you the way home to everything you need.
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.