Books by Byron Katie

Loving What Is, Revised Edition

Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell

Out of nowhere, like a cool breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and The Work. Loving What Is will show you step by step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself.

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Good Lord! She’s the real McCoy. Her Work is amazingly effective—a simple, straightforward antidote to the suffering we unnecessarily create for ourselves.

David Chadwick

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

Erica Jong

Byron Katie’s Work is a great blessing for our planet. In Loving What Is, you have the key. Now use it.

Eckhart Tolle

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

Lama Surya Das

A Thousand Names for Joy

Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell

In this book, Katie does more than describe the awakened mind; she lets you see it and feel it in action. She uses provocative excerpts from the Tao Te Ching to talk about the most essential issues that face us all.

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A genuine and fresh spiritual manifesto.

Publishers Weekly

A thought-provoking commentary on the Tao Te Ching. Katie mirrors the openness that is characteristic of Lao-tzu’s vision of reality.

Spirituality and Health

Byron Katie is one of the truly great and inspiring teachers of our time. I encourage everyone to immerse themselves in this phenomenal book. 

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

A tribute to the awakened mind in action.

Sonoma Index-Tribune

A vivid and powerful portrait of the awakened mind which offers the world a simple process to find joy. What a blessing she offers to us all!  

Iyanla Vanzant

A Thousand Names for Joy offers idiosyncratic and thought-provoking commentary on the chapters of the Tao Te Ching and its wonderful blend of practical tips and paradoxes.

Spirituality & Practice

Byron 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.

Roshi Bernie Glassman

Expect to have cherished beliefs—perhaps the ones that are blocking happiness—challenged in a unique, honest way. And expect radically different perspectives on life and death, good and evil.

Common Ground Magazine

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

Byron Katie's world is both amazing and curiously familiar. Her new book reveals what we have known all along—how large, spacious and happy life can be.

John Tarrant

For those looking for daily inspiration, this is a book to keep by the bedside.

SRQ Magazine

I Need Your Love — Is That True?

Byron Katie with Michael Katz

In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything you have been taught to do to gain love, approval, and appreciation and shows you how this questioning brings real love and puts you in charge of your own happiness.

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A spiritual innovator for the new millennium.

Time magazine

Her method can cut through years of self-delusion and rationalization.

Los Angeles Times

A Mind at Home with Itself

Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell

Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, the Diamond Sutra, to reveal the nature of mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts. At once startlingly fresh and powerfully enlightening, A Mind at Home with Itself offers us a transformative new perspective on life and death.

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I think Byron Katie is the real thing. She’s pure and her intent is only to serve—she brings people back to reality so quickly.

Tony Robbins

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.

Jack Kornfield

Katie shows us that life beyond suffering is possible and can take each reader’s mind home to its unique, immeasurably precious self.

Martha Beck

Byron Katie has rocked my world and shaken loose my mind more thoroughly than any other spiritual teacher, living or dead. In A Mind at Home with Itself, Katie offers us the rare gift of peering into a human mind—her own—that is truly at ease in the world.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A Mind at Home with Itself is a beautifully crafted book that points directly to the wisdom within us and shows us exactly how to access it.

Paul Hawken

Byron Katie, in A Mind at Home with Itself, beautifully and freshly expresses the essence of the Buddha-Dharma. Through Inquiry she directly points to the Mind of liberation. I love this book! It is one of my favorite teachings on the heart of Buddhism.

Hogen Bays, Roshi

A Mind at Home with Itself is a door into who you already are and can be if you would only get out of your own way.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

For Kids

Tiger-Tiger, Is It True?

Byron Katie with Hans Wilhelm

A heartwarming story with a powerful message. Byron Katie’s wisdom-filled words and Hans Wilhelm’s vivid, magical illustrations combine to make a book that can transform the lives of even very young children.

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The Four Questions

Byron Katie with Hans Wilhelm

A modern retelling of the classic folk tale “Chicken Little,” reimagined through the lens of The Work.

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