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Byron Katie

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Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie, is an American speaker and writer who teaches a method of self-inquiry called “The Work of Byron Katie” or simply “The Work.”

Katie became severely depressed in her early thirties. She was a businesswoman and mother who lived in Barstow, a small town in the high desert of southern California. For nearly a decade she spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and constant thoughts of suicide; for the last two years she was often unable to leave her bedroom. Then, one morning in February 1986, while in a halfway house for women with eating disorders, she experienced a life-changing realization. She called it “waking up to reality.” In that moment, she says,

“I discovered that when I b...more Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie, is an American speaker and writer who teaches a method of self-inquiry called “The Work of Byron Katie” or simply “The Work.”

Katie became severely depressed in her early thirties. She was a businesswoman and mother who lived in Barstow, a small town in the high desert of southern California. For nearly a decade she spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and constant thoughts of suicide; for the last two years she was often unable to leave her bedroom. Then, one morning in February 1986, while in a halfway house for women with eating disorders, she experienced a life-changing realization. She called it “waking up to reality.” In that moment, she says,

“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.”

Soon afterward people started seeking her out and asking how they could find the freedom that they saw in her. As reports spread about the transformations they felt they were experiencing through The Work, she was invited to present it publicly elsewhere in California, then throughout the United States, and eventually in Europe and across the world.

The Work has been compared to the Socratic method and to Zen meditation, but Katie is not aligned with any religion or tradition. She describes self-inquiry as an embodiment, in words, of the wordless questioning that had woken up in her on that February morning. She has taught it to millions of people at free public events, in prisons, hospitals, churches, V. A. treatment centers, corporations, universities, and schools. Participants at her weekend workshops, the nine-day School for The Work, and the twenty-eight-day residential Turnaround House report profound experiences and lasting transformations. “Katie’s events are riveting to watch,” the Times of London reported. Eckhart Tolle calls The Work “a great blessing for our planet.” And Time magazine named Katie a “spiritual innovator for the new millennium.”

Katie is married to the writer and translator Stephen Mitchell, who cowrote her first book, Loving What Is and her third, A Thousand Names for Joy, both of them bestsellers. I Need Your Love—Is That True?, written with her literary agent, Michael Katz, was also a bestseller. Her other books are Question Your Thinking, Change The World; Who Would You Be Without Your Story?; and, for children, Tiger-Tiger, Is It True? On her website, www.thework.com, you will find basic information about Katie and The Work, her blog, free materials to download, audio and video clips, a schedule of events, a free helpline, and a network of certified facilitators.

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	Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie (Goodreads Author), Stephen Mitchell (Goodreads Author) 4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 4,865 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead by Byron Katie (Goodreads Author), Michael Katz 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie (Goodreads Author), Stephen Mitchell (Goodreads Author) 4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie 4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Inner Awakening: The Work of Byron Katie: Four Questions That Will Transform Your Life 4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 60 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tiger-Tiger, Is It True?: Four Questions to Make You Smile Again by Byron Katie (Goodreads Author), Hans Wilhelm 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Truth Behind Addiction 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2004	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Losing the Moon: Byron Katie Dialogues on Non-Duality, Truth and Other Illusions 4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Parents And Children (Volume 2) by Byron Katie (Goodreads Author), Stephen Mitchell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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May 20, 2013 09:00AM
Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, 905 Country Club Road , Ojai, CA, US
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Omega Institute—Loving What is: The Work with Byron Katie
July 05, 2013 04:00PM — 2 people invited
Omega Institute, 50 Lake Drive, Rhinebeck, NY, US
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For almost a decade, Byron Katie suffered from constant thoughts of suicide. The...more

Amsterdam—One-day Workshop with Byron Katie
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Westerkerk, Prinsengracht 279, 1016 GW Amsterdam , NL
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“It's not your job to like me - it's mine”
― Byron Katie

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“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.”
― Byron Katie

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“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.”
― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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