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
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.
Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They're not personal, they don't belong to us, they just come and go. When they're met with understanding, they're friends.
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.