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 I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.
To argue with reality is to argue with God
No one can give you freedom but you.
The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.
Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
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.
As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.
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?"