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
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.
One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
I am the perpretor of my suffering - but only all of it.
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.
Freedom is our birthright.