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
There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.
It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.
It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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.
There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.
Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.