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
I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.
One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
I am the perpretor of my suffering - but only all of it.
The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
If you argue against reality you will suffer.
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
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.