A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
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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 Mitchell-the renowned translator of the Tao Te Ching-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 an audiobook 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 years-ever since she "woke up to reality" one morning in 1986-has been living what Lao-tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago.
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.
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Reviews for A Thousand Names for Joy
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It took me several chapters but then I was listening.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I absolutely love this book and I would recommend reading it to anyone who experiences severe stress or is mildly disappointed with current reality. However it takes a lot of courage to accept everything that Katie talks about. I will probably read the book again sometime later in order to grab ultimate idea deeply.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book truly changed my life. I will refer to it again and again. Thank you Byron Katie for The Work!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Having heard about Katie for years, it was good to finally read one of her books. She is almost too good to be true....but it seems it may be more than shtick for her. This book uses snippets from her husbands version of the Tao as the basis for each chapter. Mitchell, however, makes no claim to speak Chinese. He admits to reading many translations and appears to have done some free-based thinking in his version. Not sure many authors would have quite so much chutzpah to write a book based so loosely on a non-translation of a well-known classic.At the end of the book is a step-by-step how-to of "The Work," Katie's method of looking at difficult personal problems. That is also interesting, but I'm not certain it can really succeed as a self-help.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a retranslation of the Tao Te Ching according to Katie's unique outlook on life, and her thought dovetails wonderfully with the ancient work. Her husband acts as translator (and more I suspect). Just pick it up, turn to any page, and let it hit you right between the eyes.
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