The Work That Brings Peace In Me

The truly remarkable story of the author’s personal journey from living in emotional pain, anger, and turmoil, because of his horrendous experiences growing up in Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda, and how he found his way to personal PEACE and Living in the Present NOW. Costa has written this inspiring true account, in the hope that others will be helped by the self-inquiry process that Costa discovered through The School for the Work of Byron Katie. Costa’s inspiration: “The best time of my life is this. This is The present and I celebrate.”

The truly remarkable story of the author’s personal journey from living in emotional pain, anger, and turmoil, because of his horrendous experiences growing up in Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda, and how he found his way to personal PEACE and Living in the Present NOW. Costa has written this inspiring true account, in the hope that others will be helped by the self-inquiry process that Costa discovered through The School for the Work of Byron Katie. Costa’s inspiration: “The best time of my life is this. This is The present and I celebrate.”

Costa's parents fled a Tutsis' massacre in Rwanda to Burundi in 1959. After his mother was widowed at a young age, he and his siblings grew up in extreme poverty. Costa was imprisoned three times, in Congo and Burundi at the age of seventeen, and in Rwanda. The family repatriated to Rwanda in 1995 after the Tutsis' Genocide, which took the lives of almost one million innocents within a period of 100 days. Inspired by The School for the Work with Byron Katie, where he found the true line of his inner peace, Costa became an international presenter and facilitator for individual healing and interpersonal reconciliation. The Work that Brings Peace In Me -- the name of his book and of his presentation -- is an invitation to focus on The Present by questioning our mind. Costa is currently a graduate student at the University of Southern Maine in US Health Policy and Management.