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
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.
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.
I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.
The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.
We say to others only what we need to hear