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: Loving what is - quest to change your personal computer
Summary: 5 Stars
Imagine you are the creator of the most elegant and sophisticated personal computer (something like an Apple's iPod).
Now imagine that when you have created your machine you made some of the mistakes and you
a) Desire to fix them or
b) Desire to undo them or
c) Desire to redesign it.
Katie Byron gives you simplest technique, where you as a creator can
a) Fix your machine - your personal thoughts,
b) Undo your mistakes,
c) Redesign yourself. Ultimately building a perfect machine - just like your Creator wanted you to be.
If you do not believe in the Creator "nonsense" and think that you just came from the outer space bacteria and mutated into a human being in the last 16 billion years, then you can use Katie's book to create a best bacteria out of yourself from scratch and undo 16 billion years of possible mistakes.
Great book, happy reading, and ultimately happy re-wiring
Book Review: More powerful than you might think
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a super book. What I realized after reading it is that its real power is manifested through the way one sees the world after doing "The Work" described in it. When we accept what is, our very own and personally experienced perception of our issues (e.g. conflicts with people, situations, etc.) actually changes. Simply stated, we learn to see things for how they really are versus seeing them as we have embedded them in the ego-invested stories we tell ourselves about those conflicts/situations. Essentially, as we learn to do "The Work" our stories get lovingly stripped down to what actually is versus what our ego would have us believe they are. When we change how we think, we change how we interact with the world and it naturally follows that how we experience the world then changes as well, all in wonderfully positive and profound ways. It doesn't happen all at once; after all, many of those who do "The Work" are well into adulthood with fully defended egos. For those who come from dysfunctional backgrounds, "The Work" helps us face how that dysfunction is hindering us and gives us powerful tools to eliminate it. Excellent book recommended to me by a trusted, wonderful professional.Book Review: Inquiry is good - blaming Self for childhood abuse: bad
Summary: 2 Stars
Her work of always looking at one's part in things, as an ADULT, is the ticket to anyone's happiness. The problem with Byron Katie's work, is when people pour out their hearts regarding their childhood sexual and other abuse. She then does the "turn-around" where they BLAME themselves for their abuse, and not being "loving" to their perpetrators. See for yourself on Disk 6. Just don't try this at home.....
I'm all for looking at my part of everything. But abusing children, is ALWAYS on the shoulders of the perpetrator - never ever should it be on the child. The child is weak. The adult is powerful. EVEN if the child "allowed" themselves to be raped for "love" - this is rape. It is exactly here, where I entirely lost my respect for The Work. Like I said, see for yourself. Do your own research.
Happy Seeking!
-R.E.
Book Review: The Alpha and the Omega of Books
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't believe anything I say. Try it out for yourself.
This may just be the book you have always been looking for.
Not only is it the product of a fearlessly, ruthlessly, clear, flexible, loving, kind, and playful mind experiencing itself as heaven on earth,
It gives you the simple instructions to get there yourself.
These four questions may seem too simple, too irrelevant, too plain.
Notice how you may want your "truth" to be more colorful, exotic, and complicated. These questions are disarmingly simple, truth-seeking cut down to its barest essentials.
All the shelves of beloved spiritual texts are now collecting dust while Katie's book is used every single day. I am simply doing my work and experiencing the results.
If you are anything less than brilliantly joyful, I invite you to The Work.
Book Review: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Summary: 5 Stars
I have recently been fortunate to run across a Wayne Dyer and Byron Katie CD. This encouraged me to purchase her book on the Four Questions. Katie does indeed give us a whole different perspective at looking at ourselves and others. I am having a hard time forgiving some of the people in my life, and through Katie's process, I am learning to let go and learning how to just love people and not judge them. I would definitely recommend this book and I plan to get other books by her.