Byron Kathleen Mitchell (b.1942,) 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.
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When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Feelings, Experience, Suffering, War
When I am perfectly clear, what is, is what I want.
—Byron Katie
Everything happens for me, not to me.
—Byron Katie
As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing “out there” is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Judgment, Perception, Thinking
Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.
—Byron Katie
There are no physical problems – only mental ones.
—Byron Katie
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we’re tired of the pain. We’re in a hurry. No time to mess around.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Time
Reality doesn’t wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Doing, Opinion
No one has ever been angry at another human being – we’re only angry at our story of them.
—Byron Katie
The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it’s understood.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Laughter
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
—Byron Katie
All suffering originates from the mind, not the world.
—Byron Katie
Gratitude is what we are without a story.
—Byron Katie
Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Stress
When we try to be safe, we live our lives being very, very careful; and we wind up having no lives.
—Byron Katie
I saw that we’re all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Humility, Life, Best, Doing, Time, Responsibility
A teacher of fear can’t bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You’re the one.
—Byron Katie
Topics: Fear, Yin, Try, Live, Peace
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
—Byron Katie
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