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Byron Katie
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Loving What Is
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Byron
Katie's, The Work, has transformed
thousands of lives by creating major shifts
in the way people experience their world
and relationships - by surrendering to the
divinity of what is. This surprisingly simple,
yet profoundly powerful process called inquiry,
is making waves throughout the industry
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May, 2004
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About Katie's NEW BOOK
I
Need Your Love—Is That True?
How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and
Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead
In
her first book, Loving What
Is, bestselling author Byron
Katie introduced the world to
her simple and profound method of finding
happiness through questioning the mind.
Now Katie's second book, I
Need Your Love—Is That True?
(Harmony Books, April 5, 2005) examines
a universal, age-old source of anxiety:
our relationships with others. In this
groundbreaking book, Katie helps you to
question everything you have been taught
to do, say, or think in order to secure
love, approval, and appreciation from
others and shows you how to find genuine,
effortless love.
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The
usual advice offered in self-help books and
reinforced by our culture advocates a stressful,
all-consuming quest for love and approval. We
are advised to learn manipulative skills—how
to attract, impress, and seduce others by pretending
to be something we aren't. This approach doesn't
work. It leaves millions of walking wounded—those
who, having failed to find love or appreciation,
blame themselves and conclude that they are
unworthy of love.
I
Need Your Love—Is That True?
helps you illuminate every area in your life
where you seem to lack what you most long for—the
love of your spouse, the respect of your child,
the esteem of your boss, or the admiration of
your friends. Through its amazingly penetrating
mode of inquiry, you will quickly learn to see
the falseness of the accepted ways of seeking
love and approval, and you will learn to disentangle
love from need. As you use the step-by-step
process this book provides, you will inquire
into some of the most painful beliefs that you've
based your whole life on—and be delighted
to see them evaporate. Katie shows you how understanding
the search for love, approval, and appreciation
leads naturally to authentic love and puts you
in charge of your own happiness.
Byron
Katie experienced what she calls “waking
up to reality” in 1986. In the midst of
a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed,
and over a ten-year period sank further into
rage and despair. Then one morning, she woke
up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the
realization of how her own suffering had ended.
The freedom of that realization has never left
her, and from it she developed a method of inquiry
she calls “The Work.”
The
heart of The Work is asking four questions that,
when applied to specific stressful thoughts
or beliefs, enable you to see your problems
in an entirely different light. The Work has
been compared to Zen koans and Socratic questioning,
and people describe it as spiritual or psychological.
But it doesn't stem from any tradition, Eastern
or Western, and it doesn't fit into any single
category. It is American, homegrown, totally
accessible and user-friendly, having originated
in the mind of an ordinary woman who had no
intention of originating anything.
Over
the last fifteen years, hundreds of thousands
of people have experienced The Work of Byron
Katie throughout the world, at free public events,
weekend workshops, conferences, and at her nine-day
school. Attending an event with her is a unique
experience. Katie does not lecture or teach
in any conventional way. Instead, she invites
people to do The Work with her and with each
other, to write down and then share their stressful
thoughts and engage in a process of inquiry.
“It is riveting to watch,” the Times
of London reported, “and not just because
people are baring their souls. Katie's laser-like
tough love burns away all illusions.”
Eckhart Tolle, the best-selling author of The
Power of Now said, “Byron Katie's
Work is a blessing for our planet.” And
Time Magazine named Katie a “spiritual
innovator for the new millennium.”
In
I Need Your Love—Is That True?, Katie
shows how The Work is applied to our hopeless
search for love, approval, and appreciation.
She doesn't give you the answers. Instead, she
gives you the questions that lead to your own
self-realization. As she writes in the book's
introduction:
"Everyone
agrees that love is wonderful, except when it's
terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized
by love—seeking it, trying to hold on
to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind
love, as major preoccupations, come approval
and appreciation. From childhood on, most people
spend much of their energy in a relentless pursuit
of these things, trying out different methods
to be noticed, to please, to impress, and to
win other people's love, thinking that's just
the way life is. The effort can become so constant
and unquestioned that we barely notice it anymore.
This
book shows you what works and what doesn't in
the quest for love and approval. It will help
you find a way to be happier in love and more
effective in all your relationships. What you
learn here will bring fulfillment to all kinds
of relationships, including romantic love, dating,
marriage, work, and friendship."
I
Need Your Love—Is That True?
by Byron Katie with Michael Katz
Harmony Books
April 2005
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