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Areas: Self-Inquiry; Self Awakening
t- eller: “Loving What Is”
: Author; Program Leader; Creator of The Work
rate Affiliation: Byron Katie Internationalro Katie BiographyKatie developed the powerful method of inquiry known as The Work, which
people see their problems from an entirely different perspective. Katie
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depression—rarely leaving her bed for the last two. Then one morning, in a
sudden flash of insight, she realized that her problem was not the world around her
ut her beliefs about the world. “What I understood,” she says, “was that when I
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The Work to hundreds of thousands of people in over 30s Mental Cleanse—a five-day program of continuous inquiryoughtsb
believed my thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned my thoughts, I didn’t
suffer.”
Katie developed The Work without any knowledge of religion or psychology. It is
based on her direct experience of how suffering is created and ended. Since 198
she has introduced
countries around the world. She has brought The Work into corporations,
universities, schools, churches, prisons, and hospitals.
Since 1998, Katie has directed The School for The Work, a nine-day curriculum of
exercises offered several times a year in America and Europe. She also hosts an
annual New Year’
that takes place in Southern California—and weekend intensives in major cities
around the world. Katie’s book, Loving What Is, written with her husband Stephen
Mitchell, has been translated into 16 languages and has been on best-seller lists at
bookstores across the United States.
David Riklan’s favorite Byron Katie Quotes and Th
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inner violence- A teacher of fear can’t bring peace on Earth. We have been trying to do
that way for thousands of years. The person who turns
around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who