Week 39 · modern

Byron Katie

In 1986, Byron Katie was a businesswoman in such deep depression that she couldn't leave her house. She ended up in a halfway house, sleeping on the floor because she didn't believe she deserved a bed. One morning, she woke up and something had shifted. Every stressful thought she'd ever had was gone. Not suppressed, not managed...gone. She spent the next 35 years developing a method to help other people experience the same thing, one thought at a time.

“"When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time." She says this cheerfully, like someone reporting the weather. The simplicity of it makes people angry. Then it makes them free.”