Finding Freedom in a World of Suffering

A Mind at Home with Itself

The bestselling author of Loving What Is offers a new book on the nature of the mind and freedom from painful thoughts.

Very illuminating...on the cutting edge of current biological research

Byron Katie has rocked my world and shaken loose my mind more thoroughly than any other spiritual teacher I've ever encountered. I would recommend A MIND AT HOME WITH ITSELF to anyone like me - to anyone who has ever felt like her own mind was a very dangerous neighborhood.

A truly illuminating and lively hookup of revered ancient Zen Diamond Sutra teachings and a wild and clear-eyed modern sage. It will help you to question deeply, inspire your spirit, and awaken your understanding.

I think Byron Katie is just a real thing. I love her to death. She's pure and her intent is only to serve and she brings people back to reality so quickly. Teaches them not to believe their limiting thoughts and to question them and find the real truth.

Byron Katie’s Work is a great blessing for our planet

Excellent…a groundbreaking meditation on selflessness and generosity

Byron Katie is one of the truly great inspiring teachers of our time.

DR WAYNE DYER, author of Being in Balance

Byron Katie's teachings and everyday life are pure wisdom.

ROSHI BERNIE GLASSMAN, author of Intructions to the Cook

Byron Katie (Author) Byron Katie is the author of bestsellers Loving What Is, I Need Your Love - Is That True? and A Thousand Names for Joy. She is renowned for her creation of 'The Work', a four-step method of self-inquiry. Stephen Mitchell (Author) Her co-author, Stephen Mitchell, is the author of many books including The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Gilgamesh, The Second Book of the Tao. www.stephenmitchellbooks.com

‘Illuminating…on the cutting edge’ Jon Kabat-Zinn 
 
'Byron Katie has rocked my world and shaken loose my mind more thoroughly than any other spiritual teacher I've ever encountered' Elizabeth Gilbert 
 
How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart and Turn Your World Around 
 
In A Mind At Home With Itself, bestselling author and founder of The Work, Byron Katie explains that emotions such as sadness, anger and resentment come from believing our negative thoughts. But when we learn to question those thoughts, they lose their power. And when this happens, our minds are free to turn towards others and ourselves with a spirit of generosity. 
 
Byron Katie gives hugely popular workshops every year all over the world, in places like churches, prisons, universities, schools and corporations. She speaks at organisations like Facebook and Stanford University and is also involved with a programme for cancer patients. Charismatic and compassionate, there’s good reason why The Times has called her events ‘riveting’, and Time magazine has named her ‘a spiritual innovator for the new millennium’.

The Sayings of the Buddha

The Dhammapada

A lyrical translation of the essential sayings of the Buddha

Lyrical, elegant and profound - my favourite translation of all.

Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart

Thomas Byrom PhD was born in England and educated at the universities of Oxford and Harvard. He taught at Harvard and later at Oxford, where he was a fellow of Exeter College and then St Catherine's College. He lived in the United States from 1976 until his death in 1991.

The Dhammapada is a classic of world religious literature. This spiritual masterpiece collects together the key sayings of the Buddha and is an essential guide for all those who wish to follow the Buddha on the path to enlightenment. Yet its appeal extends beyond Buddhism to engage anyone who seeks to understand profound universal truths, and it remains as relevant today as when the text was compiled some 2,500 years ago. 
 
In this beautiful translation of one of the best loved Buddhist scriptures, Thomas Byrom reveals the practical and timeless simplicity of the Buddha's teaching.

How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are

A Thousand Names For Joy

From Byron Katie, author of the hugely successful Loving What Is, a simple, straightforward method of achieving inner peace by finding joy in the way things are.

Byron Katie is one of the truly great and inspiring teachers of our time. She has been enormously helpful to me personally. I love this very wise woman, and I encourage everyone to immerse themselves in this phenomenal book.

A Thousand Names for Joy is a vivid and powerful portrait of the awakened mind. I am captivated by Katie’s clear mind and loving heart, which offer the world a simple process to find joy. Who knew? Katie did, and what a blessing she offers to us all.

Iyanla Vanzant, founder, Inner Visions Institute

Katie’s teachings and everyday life are pure wisdom. A Thousand Names for Joy shows us the way to inner peace, and she directs us there fearlessly, relentlessly, and with utmost generosity. I have rarely seen anyone—spiritual teachers included—embody wisdom as powerfully as Katie in her passionate embrace of each and every moment.

Byron Katie’s Work . . . acts like a razor-sharp sword that cuts through illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being.

Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now

No less than a revolutionary way to live your life.  The question is: are we brave enough to accept it?

I love Katie and her Work...both love and wisdom are there.

Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within

Get real, beat the blues.  Lasting happiness is just four simple questions away.

written with intelligence and an impressive lightness of touch

Byron Katie is based in California but travels the globe ceaselessly, teaching to sellout audiences. Stephen Mitchell's widely acclaimed translations of the Tao Te Ching and the Bhagavad Gita (Rider 2000) are respected the world over. He lives in California.

Inspired by the Tao Te Ching, this is Byron Katie's inspiring and pragmatic approach to achieving an awakened mind and living more simply and profoundly. Using the template of the 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching she talks about her own experience of living in harmony with the way things are, and the difference between what hurts and what doesn't. 
 
Katie has written two books that teach how suffering can be relieved by questioning the thoughts that create it, the thoughts that argue with reality. This questioning takes courage and, in this her third book, she gives readers profound encouragement by showing them the freedom and love that live on the other side of self-inquiry. 
 
Many people believe that although enlightenment was attainable thousands of years ago by a few great saints or ascetics, such a state is out of reach of anyone living in the modern world, let alone themselves. This richly detailed account has the ability to change that belief. 
 
Katie's comments on life, and how to live it, are profound, vibrant, funny and crystal clear and all rooted in the familiar circumstances of everyday life.

How to find all the love, approval and appreciation you ever wanted

I Need Your Love - Is That True?

Byron Katie, author of the hugely successful 'Loving What Is', delves into the universal quest in everyone's life for love, approval and appreciation

Byron Katie's Work is a great blessing for our planet

Katie's Work is a simple method that anyone can use to untangle difficulties in work, love and family

Byron Katie is based in Los Angeles but travels the globe ceaselessly, teaching to large audiences.

Byron Katie's extremely simple programme called The Work was explored in her previous, hugely popular, book, Loving What Is. In it she explained how easy it is to be confused by the mental gymnastics we all play in our minds, and how looking closely at our thoughts - and whether they are true - can bring us a life of integrity and happiness. 
 
Her second book questions everything we have been taught to think and do to find love and approval and shows how to make the transition to an effective, non-manipulative way of connecting with others. When you live your life focused on thoughts such as 'I need a man' or 'She doesn't care about me' you live in fear and end up lonely, stressed, heartbroken and depressed. However, when you start to explore The Work, you can begin to enquire into many of the unquestioned beliefs you have lived by, and can begin to change. 
 
Through 'I Need Your Love - Is It True?' readers can explore what happens in their mind when they believe they need love, appreciation and approval. When they realise the truth of what's really going on inside them there is no doubt they can find real love and mutual understanding, expecially with the help of Byron Katie's wisdom and compassion.

Byron Katie

Stephen Mitchell

Byron Katie’s Work is a great blessing for our planet. The root cause of suffering is identification with our thoughts, the ‘stories’ that are continuously running through our minds. Byron Katie’s Work acts like a razor-sharp sword that cuts through that illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being. Joy, peace, and love emanate from it as your natural state. In Loving What Is, you have the key. Now use it

Suppose you could find a simple way to embrace your life with joy, stop arguing with reality, and achieve serenity in the midst of chaos? That is what Loving What Is offers. It is no less than a revolutionary way to live your life. The question is: are we brave enough to accept it

Loving What Is is filled with the essence of wisdom. Katie’s Work is a wonderful, transformative practice for anyone interested in spiritual growth.

Good Lord! Where did Byron Katie come from? She’s the real McCoy. Her Work is amazingly effective—a simple, straightforward antidote to the suffering we unnecessarily create for ourselves. She asks us to believe nothing, but provides a surprisingly effective and simple way to cut through the tangle of delusions we wrap ourselves in. Just reading the exchanges in Loving What Is, I can admit things I didn’t want to admit and stop torturing myself in ways I didn’t realize I was doing.

David Chadwick, author of Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

A pragmatic and simple way of getting people to take responsibility for their own problems

A simple, straightforward antidote to the suffering we unnecessarily create for ourselves

Her method can cut through years of self-delusion and rationalisation

Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Loving What Is

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