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Byron Katie

Byron Katie

Creater and teacher of "The Work"

Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie (born December 6, 1942), 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 (BKI), an organization that includes The School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California.

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Loving What Is

Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

by Byron Katie

Byron Katie is best known for the four questions that make up "The Work" and in this Note we’ll take a quick look at those along with some other really cool Ideas. We'll learn to love what is by seeing our suffering as a compassionate alarm clock awakening us to our possibilities and by recognizing that if we see things as "wrong" in the world, we need to start by changing our own consciousness.

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Whose Business Are You In?
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Three Options: Yours + Someone Else’s + God’s

Byron Katie tells us that there are three different businesses we can be in: Our own business, someone else’s business, or God’s business. She tells us that if we want to reduce our suffering, we’d be VERY wise to focus exclusively on OUR business. You may have noticed that it’s I M P O S S I B L...

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It Is What It Is
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The Power of Loving What Is

Byron Katie wrote a great book called Loving What Is. We talked about her before in the context of making sure you stay in YOUR business rather than God’s business or someone else’s business. (How’s that going for you?) Fun fact: I have a particular affinity to Katie (as she’s known to her studen...

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How Byron Katie Does Her Dishes
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Hint: She Dominates Them 🤓

In our last +1, we talked about the etymology of the word dominate. Recall, it comes from the Latin “to rule.” I like that. Let’s rule our lives with strong self-mastery. A couple +1s back we talked about me dominating my kitchen. Although I didn’t mention it, dominating my kitchen obviously incl...

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Conquering Procrastination & Self-Image

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Lint on a Projector’s Lens
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Got Any on Yours?

In our last couple +1s, we’ve been exploring the fact that everything is “empty” of meaning. One more time: We bring our own consciousness to E V E R Y T H I N G and that influences what we see. Pretty much all the great spiritual teachers talk about this. Today we’re going to chat about a couple...

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Confidence & Self-Image

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