Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Book Review: clear, compelling and compassionate
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is great because it makes you realise what you can learn about yourself from your negative reactions to the world and other people - and overcom those reactions by solving these tensions and discovering your underlying beliefs.I have always beieved that there is one universal truth about human beings and that there are only different ways of telling it. If you are intellectual, you read philosophy, if you are perceptual you study buddhism. This book is friendly and accessible, guiding a modern person in an easy and compassionate way to the harmony of the self.
It is effective because it does ask you questions, but does prescribe answers. It is simple as it lets you find the answers within yourself. It is amazing because it works so well.
Highly recommended - even if it does not speak to you (which I doubt), I am sure you have a friend who will like it - and thank you for passing it on!
Book Review: A tool-box for life
Summary: 5 Stars
Do people, things, situations, worry you? scare you? annoy you? Are you a human being? If the answer is yes then READ THIS BOOK. It will give you a method to overcome anything. It is a life changer!
For years I thought I was doing something wrong. I would try to meditate, be spiritual or distance myself from things but always I failed and let things get to me.
Now, by doing "The Work" as set out by Byron Katie, four questions that can be applied to any situation, I have a much more happy, contented and peaceful life.
Other books tell you to be present and focused in the moment but this book goes well beyond that and tells you how and why.
Not only are we told the questions, but also, how to apply them is explained in depth, followed by examples of many real life situations which are wonderfully revealing and helpful.
This is a wonderful book which applies to all. It is not particularily religious, atheiest or spiritual, and yet it is all. It is a tool box for life and I found it extremely helpful.
Book Review: Life transforming!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Book Review: BUY THIS BOOK!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is THE book. It WILL change your life. Simply miraculous.Book Review: A revolutionary yet beautifully simple teaching
Summary: 5 Stars
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!