Loving What Is

Each morning, as she was waking up, Katie became filled with increasing rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. She sank further into sadness with each passing year. For ten years, she wallowed in agony. One morning, however, she woke up with a feeling of freedom and joy--a realization that the suffering had ended. Katie realized that the problem wasn't really a problem at all--it was her thoughts about the problem. It wasn't the sadness that caused her suffering; it was her thinking about the sadness. The Work is four questions that enable us to see what is troubling us in an entirely different light. When we truly love what is, just as it is, we experience this level of freedom and peace.