Short description
In February 1986 Byron Katie woke up one morning to a fundamental, luminous state of being. Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had realised she developed a simple method of self inquiry called The Work , based on four simple questions.
Long description
The Work began on a February morning in 1986, when Byron Katie woke up on the floor of a halfway house, at a complete dead end in her life, and began to laugh. She had woken up without any concept of who, where, or what she was. She awoke to the fundamental, luminous state of being that is without any separation, that experiences itself as pure love. Like great spiritual masters from many traditions, she knew she had reached the end of confusion and suffering. That was the moment she burst into laughter. Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had realized, Katie developed a simple method of self-enquiry that she called The Work, a life-transforming system for discarding the stories we tell ourselves, which are the source of suffering, and replacing them with the truth ( what is ) and a life of total joy. She began teaching The Work wherever she was invited - at first in small, informal gatherings and eventually to packed workshops around the world. The Work consists of only four simple questions that you can apply to any problem. It is so easy and practical - but also profound in its application.
Review
A definite return to form for Karin Slaughter's Sara Linton novels after the pedestrian Kisscut. This time around, Linton is called out to an apparent suicide at the local college campus, where the mutilated corpse provides no clues. The college wants to avoid scandal but for Linton and Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver things just don't add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow and a young woman is brutally attacked. As Tolliver pursues the sadistic killer, he finds that ex-detective Lena Adams, angered by her expulsion from the police, is holding crucial information. This one is markedly better than Kisscut, which veered between romance and thriller; Slaughter here shows the cutting edge which made Blindsighted such a success. Readers will once again be sympathetic towards Linton, who is a terrific heroine.