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: The reality of happiness in the real world.
Summary: 5 Stars
The great truths are simple. It seems inherent to the human condition that we make getting to that simplicity such a complex task. Loving What Is, cuts through that complexity and brings us back home to what is simple, but more importantly, to what is real.As a psychotherapist and author (Embracing Fear, HarperSanFrancisco) who emphasizes present-tense focus, self-compassion, and personal responsibility, I will certainly be recommending this book to my clients and readers. The writing is accessible, the content is practical, and the results readers will discover are powerful.
The authors have an appreciation for the prevalence of paradox in personal growth, demonstrating repeatedly that the answers we seek are frequently found in the opposite direction from where we have been looking. Most importantly, Ms. Katie's "Work" shows us how to use the power of acceptance to reclaim a position of authority in our own emotional lives.
Book Review: 2nd Most Important Book I Ever Read
Summary: 5 Stars
The best single book I now own, or ever will own, is a good dictionary. "Loving What Is", is right under that.Book Review: The End of Suffering
Summary: 5 Stars
Read this book. See Byron Katie. Do The Work. End your suffering... and, by extension, the suffering of others. Katie's simple four questions and turn arounds will help you be free. Truly. I mean it. No, really. Stop surfing... go get the book.Book Review: This book really can change your life
Summary: 5 Stars
"When you argue with reality, you lose-but only 100% of the time," Byron Katie says. To help us stop our painful and hopeless arguments with reality, Byron Katie gives us much more, or much less, than another psychological Band-Aid or superficial pep-talk. She gives us The Work, four penetrating questions that, when asked sincerely, can help anyone tear through years of painful beliefs -"I'm too fat." "My partner should love me more." etc.-leaving the peace and freedom that come naturally from "loving what is."I found The Work a little slippery to understand the first time I heard of it (it's been spreading through word of mouth for years). How can asking myself some questions make any difference? But after I did it, I was blown away! Loving What Is makes learning this process fairly simple, through detailed instructional material, humorous anecdotes (Katie is famous for her sense of humor), and dozens of powerful examples of The Work in action. Co-author Stephen Mitchell's intelligence and precision are evident in the book's seamless structure, and in how naturally Katie's clarity and warmth make it to the page. This book still requires "active" reading-and you have to do The Work yourself in order to really get it-but for those who are willing to try something new, Loving What Is really could change your life. It changed mine. (I highly recommend the audiobook as well.)
Book Review: Great New Approach to Spiritual Inquiry
Summary: 5 Stars
This book presents a wonderful new form of spiritual inquiry that can be used by everyone. Katie has developed this approach on her own, based on her direct experience and awakening. Although it has similarities to other psychological and spiritual traditions, Katie's form of questioning is totally contemporary and western. Unlike the Zen koan system or Ramana Maharshi's inquiry, Katie's four questions are not esoteric or philosophical or hard to understand. You take your everyday judgments, "stories," and beliefs that cause any form of anxiety, stress or fear -- and put them up against four simple questions. By doing it, there are often profound results, having seen Katie do "the work" in action. I personally feel that her form of inquiry blends wonderfully with meditation and other forms of spiritual practice. Highly recommended.