Loving What Is, Revised Edition: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life; The Revolutionary Process Called "The Work
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Loving What Is, Revised Edition: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life; The Revolutionary Process Called "The Work
The Work reveals that what you think shouldn’t have happened should have happened. It should have happened because it did happen, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn’t mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle.
“we are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.”
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
You’re either attaching to your thoughts or inquiring. There’s no other choice.
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve your problems for you.
Who or what would you be without the thought? This is a very powerful question.
Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, “Sweetheart, take a look at what you’re thinking right now. You’re living in a story that isn’t true for you.”
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.