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Loving What Is by bestselling author Byron Katie is a simple,
straightforward antidote to the suffering we unnecessarily create
for ourselves and has inspired and help millions of people
transform their pain into freedom. Written in an easy-to-follow,
interactive and accessible way and drawing on illustrative case
studies, reading this is the first step to turning your life around
and achieving inner peace and harmony... 'A great blessing for our
planet' -- Eckhart Tolle 'Her method can cut through years of
self-delusion and rationalisation' -- Los Angeles Times 'A
pragmatic and simple way of getting people to take responsibility
for their own problems' -- Time Magazine 'Mind blown - [this is
the] best book I have read of this type since Power of Now. Really
helped me to let go of beliefs and judgements that aren't serving
me. Thanks for writing it.' -- ***** Reader review 'Amazing, life
changing' -- ***** Reader review 'A massively inspiring book' --
***** Reader review 'Very easy to read and an absolute gem!' --
***** Reader review 'Life changing (really)' -- ***** Reader review
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it Drawing on her own
experience of moving through suffering to freedom, Byron Katie
developed 'The Work': a simple, four-step programme to help
pinpoint the problems that are troubling you and how to tackle them
effectively. A life-transforming system for discarding the stories
at the source of our suffering, this is your guide to finding inner
peace and happiness.
'Illuminating...on the cutting edge' Jon Kabat-Zinn 'Byron Katie
has rocked my world and shaken loose my mind more thoroughly than
any other spiritual teacher I've ever encountered' Elizabeth
Gilbert How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your
Heart and Turn Your World Around In A Mind At Home With Itself,
bestselling author and founder of The Work, Byron Katie explains
that emotions such as sadness, anger and resentment come from
believing our negative thoughts. But when we learn to question
those thoughts, they lose their power. And when this happens, our
minds are free to turn towards others and ourselves with a spirit
of generosity. Byron Katie gives hugely popular workshops every
year all over the world, in places like churches, prisons,
universities, schools and corporations. She speaks at organisations
like Facebook and Stanford University and is also involved with a
programme for cancer patients. Charismatic and compassionate,
there's good reason why The Times has called her events 'riveting',
and Time magazine has named her 'a spiritual innovator for the new
millennium'.
A major work by spiritual teacher Byron Katie: a simple, straightforward system for achieving inner peace.
The Work began on a February morning in 1986, when Byron Katie woke up on the floor of a halfway house, at a complete dead end in her life, and began to laugh. She had woken up without any concept of who, where, or what she was. She awoke to the fundamental, luminous state of being that is without any separation, that experiences itself as pure love. Like great spiritual masters from many traditions, she knew she had reached the end of confusion and suffering. That was the moment she burst into laughter.
Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had realized, Katie developed a simple method of self-enquiry that she called The Work, a life-transforming system for discarding the stories we tell ourselves, which are the source of suffering, and replacing them with the truth ("what is") and a life of total joy. She began teaching The Work wherever she was invited - at first in small, informal gatherings and eventually to packed workshops around the world.
The Work consists of only four simple questions that you can apply to any problem. It is so easy and practical - but also profound in its application.
"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
In her first two books, "Loving What Is" and "I Need Your Love-Is
That True?" Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by
questioning the stressful thoughts that create it. Now, in "A
Thousand Names for Joy," she encourages us to discover the freedom
that lives on the other side of inquiry.
Stephen Mitchell-the renowned translator of the Tao Te
Ching-selected provocative excerpts from that ancient text as a
stimulus for Katie to talk about the most essential issues that
face us all: life and death, good and evil, love, work, and
fulfillment. With her stories of total ease in all circumstances,
Katie does more than describe the awakened mind; she lets you see
it, feel it, in action.
Inspired by the Tao Te Ching, this is Byron Katie's inspiring and
pragmatic approach to achieving an awakened mind and living more
simply and profoundly. Using the template of the 81 chapters of the
Tao Te Ching she talks about her own experience of living in
harmony with the way things are, and the difference between what
hurts and what doesn't. Katie has written two books that teach how
suffering can be relieved by questioning the thoughts that create
it, the thoughts that argue with reality. This questioning takes
courage and, in this her third book, she gives readers profound
encouragement by showing them the freedom and love that live on the
other side of self-inquiry. Many people believe that although
enlightenment was attainable thousands of years ago by a few great
saints or ascetics, such a state is out of reach of anyone living
in the modern world, let alone themselves. This richly detailed
account has the ability to change that belief. Katie's comments on
life, and how to live it, are profound, vibrant, funny and crystal
clear and all rooted in the familiar circumstances of everyday
life.
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