Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie
This book is a collection of 15 dialogues that occurred throughout the United States and Europe with Byron Katie. Some of the people who worked with Katie have painful illnesses, others are lovelorn or in messy divorces. Some are simply irritated with a co-worker or worried about money. What they all have in common is a willingness to question, with Katie’s help, the painful thoughts that are the true cause of their suffering.

In every case we see how Katie’s acute mind and fierce kindness helps each person dismantle for themselves what is felt to be unshakable reality. Although these dialogues make fascinating reading—some are both hilarious and deeply moving at once—they are intended primarily as teaching tools. Each took place in front of an audience, and Katie never lost connection with that audience, repeatedly reminding each person in the room to follow the dialogues inwardly, asking themselves the questions the participant must ask.

The dialogue between Katie and these volunteers is an external enactment of precisely the kind of dialogue each person can have with their own thoughts. The results, even in the seemingly most dire situation, can be unimagined freedom and joy.
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Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie
This book is a collection of 15 dialogues that occurred throughout the United States and Europe with Byron Katie. Some of the people who worked with Katie have painful illnesses, others are lovelorn or in messy divorces. Some are simply irritated with a co-worker or worried about money. What they all have in common is a willingness to question, with Katie’s help, the painful thoughts that are the true cause of their suffering.

In every case we see how Katie’s acute mind and fierce kindness helps each person dismantle for themselves what is felt to be unshakable reality. Although these dialogues make fascinating reading—some are both hilarious and deeply moving at once—they are intended primarily as teaching tools. Each took place in front of an audience, and Katie never lost connection with that audience, repeatedly reminding each person in the room to follow the dialogues inwardly, asking themselves the questions the participant must ask.

The dialogue between Katie and these volunteers is an external enactment of precisely the kind of dialogue each person can have with their own thoughts. The results, even in the seemingly most dire situation, can be unimagined freedom and joy.
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Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie

Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie

by Byron Katie
Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie

Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie

by Byron Katie

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Overview

This book is a collection of 15 dialogues that occurred throughout the United States and Europe with Byron Katie. Some of the people who worked with Katie have painful illnesses, others are lovelorn or in messy divorces. Some are simply irritated with a co-worker or worried about money. What they all have in common is a willingness to question, with Katie’s help, the painful thoughts that are the true cause of their suffering.

In every case we see how Katie’s acute mind and fierce kindness helps each person dismantle for themselves what is felt to be unshakable reality. Although these dialogues make fascinating reading—some are both hilarious and deeply moving at once—they are intended primarily as teaching tools. Each took place in front of an audience, and Katie never lost connection with that audience, repeatedly reminding each person in the room to follow the dialogues inwardly, asking themselves the questions the participant must ask.

The dialogue between Katie and these volunteers is an external enactment of precisely the kind of dialogue each person can have with their own thoughts. The results, even in the seemingly most dire situation, can be unimagined freedom and joy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781401923617
Publisher: Hay House Inc.
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 522,369
File size: 533 KB

About the Author

Since 1986, Byron Katie has introduced The Work directly to millions of people throughout the world at free public events; in prisons, hospitals, churches, corporations, universities, and schools; at weekend intensives; and at her nine-day School for The Work. She is the author of the best-selling books Question Your Thinking, Change the World; Loving What Is; I Need Your Love—Is That True?; and A Thousand Names for Joy.

Table of Contents


Foreword Carol Williams vii Dialogues
1 Joe Is Irresponsible 1
2 Sleep Disorder 19
3 My Mother Wouldn't Approve 39
4 I Can't Stand It That George Fell in Love with Linda 47
5 The Rent Increase 81
6 Welcome to Al-Anon! 91
7 Frank Bosses Me Around 117
8 My Mother Manipulates Me 123
9 Cancer Ruined My Life 153
10 My Sister the Prostitute 185
11 My Mother Made Me a Victim 211
12 My Husband Shouldn't Have Left Me 227
13 I'm Not Enough-and Some People Are Better Than Others 251
14 My Father Abused Me 267
15 Scared and Angry at God 299 Afterword Carol Williams 309 Appendix 311 Index of Topics 315 About the Author 317
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