Byron Katie is an American author, speaker, and mindfulness innovator. She is widely known for creating The Work, a transformative self-inquiry process.
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Conversation between Russell Brand and spiritual teacher Byron Katie - creator of "The Work".
How Do You Pray? was born from a vision in which Celeste Yacoboni was told to ask the world, “How Do You Pray?” She reached out to leading spiritual, shamanic, scientific teachers, guides, and activists and asked for their response.
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In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated in these pages by Stephen Mitchell) to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry...
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It’s not your job to like me—it’s mine.
In her first two books, Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by questioning the stressful thoughts that create it, through a process of self-inquiry she calls The Work. Now, in A Thousand Names for Joy, she encourages us to discover the freedom that lives on the other side of inquiry.
In this participant inquiry, Byron Katie asks a participant about their thoughts regarding another person.
Byron Katie explores the way other people only really exist in our imagination and are only what we believe them to be.
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 shares her story and principles of her inquiry practice, "The Work."
A powerful practice of self-inquiry created by Byron Katie, The Work consists of four questions that can help you examine and dissolve the stress associated with your thoughts. She explains how in this interview.
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