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
If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!
If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.
Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
Personalities don't love. They want something.
When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.
If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!
How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.
Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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.