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A Mind at Home with Itself

How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around

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A Mind at Home with Itself

By: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell, Pete Simonelli, Madeleine Maby
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Internationally acclaimed best-selling author Byron Katie's most anticipated work since Loving What Is.

In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated by distinguished scholar Stephen Mitchell), to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called "The Work". Byron Katie doesn't merely describe the awakened mind; she empowers us to see it and feel it in action. At once startlingly fresh and powerfully enlightening, A Mind at Home with Itself offers us a transformative new perspective on life and death and is certain to become a classic.

In the midst of a normal American life, Byron Katie became increasingly depressed and, over a 10-year period, sank further into despair and suicidal thoughts. Then, one morning in 1986, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her. Its direct result, The Work, has helped millions of people all over the world to question their stressful thoughts and set themselves free from suffering.

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©2017 Byron Kathleen Mitchell and Stephen Mitche (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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I loved this book. Cuts through the delusion on past and future. Cuts through the delusion of all beliefs. Cuts through all things until you are left with perfection.

Perfect

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I found so much to work through. I will listen again to gain more understanding still.

Wow, I Enjoyed Katie's Lessons

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Byron Katie is the epitome of pure love. Her story of waking up to reality and questioning the beliefs we have been fed along our lives is life changing. It’s so simple but at the same time so foreign to us all. If you want to escape suffering this is one way out. Listen to Katie and do “the work”, it’ll lead to only freedom.

Wow, just wow

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Thank you so much Kaitie for sharing this brilliance with the world. You opened my eyes to see the truth within me. I do the work daily. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to end the suffering from their thoughts.

I'm so grateful for you and for the work Kaitie.

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great to have more examples of how to use the work. Mrs. Katy is the real deal.

brings the 4 questions to life

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I have only the audiobook version which I highly recommend as Katie reads it herself. So often I hear her voice in my head lovingly asking me to question if my stressful thoughts are true.
I have listened to this book 4 times now over a period of two years and each time I come to a deeper realisation of the liberation she is pointing to. As someone who has devoured hundreds of books within the themes of self development/self help, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, spirituality and human evolution, this book stands out in its ability to bring about an embodied understanding of nonduality and freedom. Those new to these themes may find much of it goes over their heads, but if you practice the “work” as Katie calls it, new and deeper realisations will be revealed as you shed your conditioned mental patterns and start to see the world anew in all its beauty. Eventually you see that nothing happens TO you, but all is happening FOR you and your journey towards total liberation.

A book you can listen to again and again and find deeper realisations each time.

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Loved listening to the teachings with Byron Katie . It was so easy to understand the work when listening to the real life issues being turned around. Now the challenge...to use the work everyday.

Change Perception and Find Peace

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I already thought Katie was amazing, now I realize she is even more wonderful. Fantastic.

Byron Katie

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This book is a game changer. Literally! It’s a book to revisit again and again…… along with doing the work

Wonderful!

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It’s hard to put this book into words. I loved it and it deepened my understanding of where I am and how to apply The Work for greater freedom. I realise that my mind is often not a peaceful place and I understand why - and Katies tools are a beacon in the darkness.

Mind blowing

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