Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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Soon afterward people started seeking her out and asking how they could find the freedom that they saw in her. This book has taught me that the rain isn't causing my irritation; my irritation is caused when I attach my belief that it shouldn't be raining. I won the free coaching session with him in the group's raffle, at the end of which, my mind was blown again. There will always be a certain amount of light that gets around your sunnies – no pair of sunnies is going to be completely airtight.

I was very unsure about it because a lot of reviews suggested it includes a lot of victim blaming -- and this is, in a sense, true: Byron Katie's theory is essentially that we are always the ones causing ourselves pain. For example, let’s say you have an assignment for class and your partner hasn’tsent you his slights the night before it’s due.And this is why we can have compassion on judgments - the judgments of others and our own judgments. Rather than an overwrought political statement, Nichols keeps the focus on two people just trying to live their life together. The moment my house is leveled and I find out I’m OK and my family’s OK, my business involves finding someplace for us to sleep that night.

He reached for the small one and looked very shocked as I moved it away and put the large piece in his hand, and his face lit up as he began to move the cookie to his mouth. I’ve also added Loving What Is by Byron Katie to my collection of Philosopher’s Notes--distilling the Big Ideas into 6-page PDF and 20-minute MP3s on 600+ of the BEST self-development books ever. Universality of the triangular theory of love: adaptation and psychometric properties of the triangular love scale in 25 countries.Katie seems to opt for a rather black and white binary as to what we can and cannot change as, I imagine, this makes "the work" a lot simpler to apply. This is where you turn a problem around and see if the problem is actually your fault or just in your head. Byron Katie’s wisdom-filled words and Hans Wilhelm’s vivid, magical illustrations combine to make a book that can transform the lives of even very young children. There are indeed some great principles in this book, ones that I deeply resonate with and that have been a part of philosophies like Taoism and Buddhism for centuries.