BYRON KATIE suddenly woke up to reality in 1986; she experienced it as a state of unending love, gratitude, and joy. Out of this experience came a simple method of self-inquiry that she calls The Work. Katie’s Work — four simple questions and a turnaround — gives form to her awareness and has helped hundreds of thousands of people in over thirty countries bring radical understanding to their lives. As Katie says, “An unquestioned mind is the only world of suffering.” Throughout North America and Europe, Byron Katie International offers free events in which Katie does The Work with as many audience members as time allows. It also offers two-day intensives and the nine-day School for The Work with Byron Katie. The Work of Byron Katie Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides educational materials free to all who request them and sponsors the training of educators, therapists, and prison-workers.

Byron Katie in The Translucent Revolution:

“I woke up not believing any of my thoughts. In this, everything was erased forever, and only joy was left (if anything). Whenever a thought appeared, I was immediately aware that it wasn't true. There was nothing. I saw that nothing was true, and everything was true. Realization has no value until it's lived. That's how it is born into the world."

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