Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

all the concepts and judgments that we believe or take for granted are distortions of things as they really are. When we believe our thoughts instead of what is really true for us, we experience the kinds of emotional distress that we call suffering. Suffering is a natural alarm, warning us that we’re attaching to a thought; when we don’t listen, w

Katie: You can keep that thought. That’s the beautiful thing about The Work. You can keep all your thoughts.

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I say, skip the middleman, and be happy and free from where you are right now.

Can you see a reason to drop this thought that

Now it’s time for you to apply the four questions and the turnarounds to the rest of your judgments, one at a time. Read all the sentences you have written on your Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet. Then, one by one, investigate each statement by asking yourself: 1. Is it true? 2. Can I absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do I react, what happens, w

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as long as you think that anyone or anything else is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of the victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

Until you can see that there is nothing to forgive, you haven’t really forgiven. We’re all innocent; we hurt others because we believe our unquestioned thoughts. No one would ever harm another human being unless they were confused.