A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way

A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

In her first two books, Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by questioning the stressful thoughts that create it, through a process of self-inquiry she calls The Work. Now, in A Thousand Names for Joy, she encourages us to discover the freedom that lives on the other side of inquiry.Stephen Mitchellâ€”the renowned translator of the Tao Te Chingâ€”selected provocative excerpts from that ancient text as a stimulus for Katie to talk about the most essential issues that face us all: life and death, good and evil, love, work, and fulfillment. The result is a book that allows the timeless insights of the Tao Te Ching to resonate anew for us today, while offering a vivid and illuminating glimpse into the life of someone who for twenty yearsâ€”ever since she â€œwoke up to realityâ€ one morning in 1986â€”has been living what Lao-tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago.Katieâ€™s profound, lighthearted wisdom is not theoretical; it is absolutely authentic. That is what makes this book so compelling. Itâ€™s a portrait of a woman who is imperturbably joyous, whether she is dancing with her infant granddaughter or finds that her house has been emptied out by burglars, whether she stands before a man about to kill her or embarks on the adventure of walking to the kitchen, whether she learns that she is going blind, flunks a â€œHow Good a Lover Are You?â€ test, or is diagnosed with cancer. With her stories of total ease in all circumstances, Katie does more than describe the awakened mind; she lets you see it, feel it, in action. And she shows you how that mind is yours as well.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harmony
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2007-02-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Harmony
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2007-02-06
Format	Kindle eBook

A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

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