Byron Katie defines happiness as something that lies exclusively within oneself. She believes that those who pin happiness and peace to other people or circumstances will struggle to resolve the chasm between their thoughts and reality. She explains that everything in our lives can be defined as one of three kinds of business: mine, yours and God's. The only way to achieve harmony is to focus only on your business, leaving the things others can control in their court and surrendering the things that only God can change. When a person recognizes every stressful feeling is being propped up by an untrue thought, he or she can commit to exposing that untruth and replacing it with reality.
At the age of 43, Byron Katie was paralyzed by depression, rage, and paranoia, but that dark time ga...
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