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
Byron Katie quotes about
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.
There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.
There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
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.
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.