Bryon Katie found herself at a complete dead end in her life, she felt increasingly depressed and over a ten-year period had sunk into an existence of depression, despair and rage. Then one morning she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the freedom of knowing her suffering had ended. Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had experienced, Katie has developed a simple method of self-enquiry that she calls The Work, four simple questions that allow you to see the problems that are troubling you in a whole new light. The Work is a life-transforming system for discarding the stories we tell ourselves, which are the source of our suffering, and replacing them with the truth and a life of joy and peace.

Discover the truth hiding behind troubling thoughts with Byron Katie’s self-help classic. In 2003, Byron Katie first introduced the world to The Work with the publication of Loving What Is. Nearly twenty years later, Loving What Is continues to inspire people all over the world to do The Work; to listen to the answers they find inside themselves;and to open their minds to profound, spacious, and life-transforming insights. The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. Loving What Is shows you step by step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. In this revised edition, readers will enjoy seven new dialogues, or real examples of Katie doing The Work with people to discover the root cause of their suffering. You will observe people work their way through a broad range of human problems, learning freedom through the very thoughts that had caused their suffering—thoughts such as “my husband betrayed me” or “my mother doesn’t love me enough.” If you continue to do The Work, you may discover that the questioning flows into every aspect of your life, effortlessly undoing the stressful thoughts that keep you from experiencing peace. Loving What Is offers everything you need to learn and live this remarkable process, and to find happiness as what Katie calls “a lover of reality.”

We all have a lot to learn in this upside down world that’s presently presenting many facets of trials and demanding endeavors. Economics is driving women and men to be emotional in some form and fashion. Today women and men are faced with many emotional encounters of sadness and madness. This emotional darkness is causing many of us to give little thought to our present issues, and react without thinking of the consequences that are very costly. Marriages and relationships are not lasting like the days of our grandparents, due to many catastrophic environmental and personal changes. Kids are lost because of the parents’ issues of emotional stresses and emotional blindness. Parents are stressing and blaming the politicians for playing political games of power. Something has to be done about this topsy-turvy world of chaos! Only a few of us know that order comes out of chaos, but times has shown us that we have gone too far to turn back the stages of destruction! Or can we?

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 When we stop arguing with reality, we feel balanced and at ease. When we continue to argue with it, we feel tense and frustrated. When we accept reality as it is, action becomes simple, fluid, and fearless. #2 There are three kinds of business: yours, mine, and God's. If you are mentally in someone else's business, you are not present in your own. To understand the three kinds of business is to be able to stay in your own. #3 We can’t control our thoughts, but we can control the attachment we have to them. We can make friends with our thoughts, and through inquiry, we can understand them and make them interesting rather than frightening. #4 When you’re operating on uninvestigated theories of what’s going on, you’re in the dream. When this happens, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story.

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Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers in western civilisation, and Plato his most famous pupil. The Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo are Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution, and together they provide the most important depiction of Socrates' ideas. In this GuideBook, Brickhouse and Smith provide clear explanations of these texts for students coming to them for the first time. Situating the works in their historical context, the authors carefully go through each text, exploring the philosophical issues raised in an accessible way. Plato and the Trial of Socrates is the ideal introduction to both the ideas of Socrates and the work of Plato.

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