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Erica Jong
‘...a revolutionary way to live your life. The question is: are we brave enough to accept it?’
Time Magazine
‘...a pragmatic and simple way of getting people to take responsibility for their own problems.’
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A revolutionary yet beautifully simple teaching,
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This review is from: Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life (Paperback)
For anyone interested in their psychological or spiritual or emotional well-being there simply is not a book on Amazon more worthy of your attention! The reason is that it is not necessary to accept or follow any particular spiritual beliefs in order to do The Work. Katie asks nothing of us but to investigate those judgements or events in our life that cause us pain and suffering in a compassionate and caring manner using a four-step system that is brilliant in its simplicity. And what's more, it works! Katie cannot be underestimated as a pioneering force in spiritual and psychoanalytical development and I urge anyone who hasn't already done so to treat themselves to a real gem!
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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By Janie "Jane O'Neill" (Brighton, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life (Paperback)
I was a bit puzzled by this book at first - I thought the four questions were too simple. But by the time I reached the end of the book I had got it - a profound change occurs almost without you realising. Byron Katie's work is really a radical form of cognitvie therapy which makes you aware that almost all of our 'problems' and the negativity we feel is caused by our thoughts. It's interesting to read it together with Steve Taylor's book Out of the Darkness, which contains a section a section on Byron Katie and an interview with Eckhart Tolle. It explains the basis of spiritual awakening and is a massively inspiring book, full of amazing stories. Out of the Darkness: From Turmoil to Transformation
90 of 97 people found the following review helpful:
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Life transforming!!!!,
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This review is from: Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life (Paperback)
This book shows us that the root of all our problems begin with a thought. For example: "I hate who I am, I hate my job, I hate my life, I hate Bob, Jane, my ex-wife, I hate the rich, blacks, whites, Jews, Christians, Communism, I hate this world". The list goes on. How do these thoughts make you feel? Negative, resentful, angry, jealous, hurtful, all these things and more. The reality is: you simply are who you are, your job is your job and you are in it right now, Bob is just Bob, your life is just however it is. Life or existence itself is just however it is. It is at the very point of giving thought to a given situation that you experience an emotion. Before a (negative) thought, you're ok. Then the thought comes along, you're not ok, a problem has arisen. So who created this problem? You did. By holding on to a certain thought or pattern of thoughts, you create an experience that you take as reality, your world, THE world, but that world exists only in your mind. The problem exists therefore only in your mind. So what's your problem got to do with your job, your life, your father, your boss, Bob, your so-called enemies. Nothing! You place the blame on the world and then try to change it, when the problem lies internally with your thoughts about the the need to change the world. Change ones thinking, then the world changes too, because the world is simply what's going on in the thoughts of 6 billion individuals. Where is this world that we talk of? There is no world other than in our own minds. It is constructed out of the thousands of thoughts that we have about it, upon which he keep building more thoughts, more concepts. This book is powerful stuff! Yet at the same time, utterly simple and accessible. Forget about religion and other silly beliefs. A set of beliefs, be it spiritual or moral is a set of thoughts, the cause of your suffering, not the answer. After all, as explained ealier, what is suffering anyway other than a thought. How can you use the cause of your suffering (a thought) to solve it? That's like using fire to fight fire. With the help of this book, through the simple realization that our thoughts about a situation or person is the problem and not the situation or person itself, we come to see therefore that our problems are all illusory. Then we no longer experience them as problems. They are simply thoughts. Result: peace! I recommend also As It Is by Tony Parsons, a book of staggering clarity.
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