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
With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
Lack of understanding is always painful.
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
The pain shows you what's left to investigate.
It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.
When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.
That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.
Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.