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
I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.
We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"
When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.
There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself
There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
Lack of understanding is always painful.
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.