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
Inquiry appears to be a process of thinking, but actually it's a way to undo thinking. Thoughts lose their power over us when we realize that they simply appear in the mind. They're not personal. Through The Work, instead of escaping or suppressing our thoughts, we learn to meet them with unconditional love and understanding.
We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
To argue with reality is to argue with God
If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected
Stress never feels as natural as peace does
Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it's over.
It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.