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
The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?
'I don't know' is my favorite position.
How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
Ultimately, I am all I can know.
Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.
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.