Byron Katie visits Unity North in the course of her new book tour! This follows the smash success of her first book, Loving What Is!

Byron Katie will appear on Monday, April 11th at 7:30 PM Unity North.
All seats are $25.




I Need Your Love—Is That True?
How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead

In her first book, Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced the world to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now Katie's second book, I Need Your Love—Is That True? (Harmony Books, April 5, 2005) examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you to question everything you have been taught to do, say, or think in order to secure love, approval, and appreciation from others and shows you how to find genuine, effortless love.

The usual advice offered in self-help books and reinforced by our culture advocates a stressful, all-consuming quest for love and approval. We are advised to learn manipulative skills—how to attract, impress, and seduce others by pretending to be something we aren't. This approach doesn't work. It leaves millions of walking wounded—those who, having failed to find love or appreciation, blame themselves and conclude that they are unworthy of love.

I Need Your Love—Is That True? helps you illuminate every area in your life where you seem to lack what you most long for—the love of your spouse, the respect of your child, the esteem of your boss, or the admiration of your friends. Through its amazingly penetrating mode of inquiry, you will quickly learn to see the falseness of the accepted ways of seeking love and approval, and you will learn to disentangle love from need. As you use the step-by-step process this book provides, you will inquire into some of the most painful beliefs that you've based your whole life on—and be delighted to see them evaporate. Katie shows you how understanding the search for love, approval, and appreciation leads naturally to authentic love and puts you in charge of your own happiness.

Byron Katie experienced what she calls “waking up to reality” in 1986. In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage and despair. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her, and from it she developed a method of inquiry she calls “The Work.”

The heart of The Work is asking four questions that, when applied to specific stressful thoughts or beliefs, enable you to see your problems in an entirely different light. The Work has been compared to Zen koans and Socratic questioning, and people describe it as spiritual or psychological. But it doesn't stem from any tradition, Eastern or Western, and it doesn't fit into any single category. It is American, homegrown, totally accessible and user-friendly, having originated in the mind of an ordinary woman who had no intention of originating anything.

Over the last fifteen years, hundreds of thousands of people have experienced The Work of Byron Katie throughout the world, at free public events, weekend workshops, conferences, and at her nine-day school. Attending an event with her is a unique experience. Katie does not lecture or teach in any conventional way. Instead, she invites people to do The Work with her and with each other, to write down and then share their stressful thoughts and engage in a process of inquiry. “It is riveting to watch,” the Times of London reported, “and not just because people are baring their souls. Katie's laser-like tough love burns away all illusions.” Eckhart Tolle, the best-selling author of The Power of Now said, “Byron Katie's Work is a blessing for our planet.” And Time Magazine named Katie a “spiritual innovator for the new millennium.”

In I Need Your Love—Is That True?, Katie shows how The Work is applied to our hopeless search for love, approval, and appreciation. She doesn't give you the answers. Instead, she gives you the questions that lead to your own self-realization. As she writes in the book's introduction:

"Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it's terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized by love—seeking it, trying to hold on to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind love, as major preoccupations, come approval and appreciation. From childhood on, most people spend much of their energy in a relentless pursuit of these things, trying out different methods to be noticed, to please, to impress, and to win other people's love, thinking that's just the way life is. The effort can become so constant and unquestioned that we barely notice it anymore.

This book shows you what works and what doesn't in the quest for love and approval. It will help you find a way to be happier in love and more effective in all your relationships. What you learn here will bring fulfillment to all kinds of relationships, including romantic love, dating, marriage, work, and friendship."

Visit Byron Katie's web site!

http://www.thework.com