Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life | Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell | The best ever to understand how my thoughts cause my pain!

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	Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell Three Rivers Press, 2003 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 180 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

transformational

I was slightly puzzled by this book at first - I thought the four questions were too simple. But by the time I reached the end I had got it - a profound change occurs almost without you realising. Byron Katie's work is really a radical form of cognitive therapy which makes you aware that almost all of our 'problems' and the negativity we feel is caused by our thoughts. I came across this book through a recommendation from Eckhart Tolle, and have come across other great books through him, such as Steve Taylor's The Fall.The Fall: The Evidence for a Golden Age, 6,000 years of Insanity and the Dawning of a New Era

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The best ever to understand how my thoughts cause my pain!

Byron Katie's work is incisive, clear, informative, confrontive yet gentle and compassionate, and she gets down to the nitty gritty of our false thinking and how we fool ourselves into thinking that "someone else" or "something else" is causing our discomfort or upset or emotional pain. Changed my life the first time I read it! Has been changing it ever since! If you want to be peaceful, joyful and happy, here's a place to start, a book that gives experiences you can relate to and shows us the way out of our human suffering and pain. It's positive, helpful and our transformation of mind can be as fast as we are willing to have it be! Enhanced my understanding of "A Course in Miracles" INCREDIBLY!!!!

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We are the teachers we've been waiting for

Very good new approach to ask oneself questions to discover the truth behind the lies that one so easily believes and keep us from happiness and love. Interestingly Katie appears to have fused several religious traditions, Zen Buddhism, Christianity and probably many others I don't recognize. And she espouses no overt religious or spiritual tradition remaining completely and forcefully neutral to emphasize the truth of reality instead of what we think we perceive and believe. I ended up reading in my own religious traditions and values to some extent on Katie's teaching and it seemed to work quite well. Otherwise, she seems a little empty, maybe like an Existentialist (as opposed to the Christian-Existentialists like Kierkegaard). But it's still important to break through the lies we believe to understand what is real. Some of her stories are brutally honest and rather explicit but they seem to be good examples of what it takes to understand what we can, let go of what we can't, accept what is and be happy and love and be loved. Peace!

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