Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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I got some points as to what she was saying, especially when she talked about how you control your own thinking.

Expecting the world / situations outside ourselves to be different from what they are is hopeless, and leads to anxiety, fear, anger, and depression. A truly illuminating and lively hookup of revered ancient Zen Diamond Sutra teachings and a wild and clear-eyed modern sage.

The questions are general enough, and the answers are supposed to be generated by the people answering them. In response to this question, the inquirer is asked to make a specific and comprehensive list of how the thought makes him feel. I don't even really 'do' the Work but I ask myself the questions quickly and that in turn has helped me to see that my thoughts are not necessarily reality, and that my feelings are caused by those thoughts. You can believe almost totally that you couldn't have escaped the situation, but you still have that lingering shard of doubt -- and that could be a way in to learn to recover from it, starting with forgiving your own perceived complicity. That doesn't mean, as I mentioned below, that there isn't good to be found in this book or that it's not helpful to many.

In that case, if they are in my life (and I in theirs) in that way, then the lines between "our business" may be more interdependent. Many people have discovered The Work’s power to solve problems; in addition, they say that through The Work they experience a sense of lasting peace and find the clarity and energy to act, even in situations that had previously seemed impossible.

Undoing one belief at a time, its ultimate impact can dislodge the very center-pole of ego, leading to the realization of who or what we truly are. The Work is a series of questions you are to ask yourself that are designed to lead to eventual insight. It's not the issue that's causing the problem, it's your THOUGHTS about the issue because you haven't investigated them to see that they oppose reality in the moment.