Moving Back Into My Own Business
A priceless observation by Byron Katie
To hear the related 5-minute audio file that I uploaded today as my Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa devices, please click on the play button:
What Would I Be Without This Thought?
I’ve had a busy morning here in Ocean Park, Maine. As usual, I am beset by this thought: I don’t have time to _______.
In this case, I fill in the blank with “to upload the Morning Journal and Len’s Newsletter in time to Zoom with my friend Jerry.”
Just by asking the four questions at the center of what followers of Katie call “The Work” helped me to settle down and record the audio message and begin writing this post. Here they are:
Is it true?
Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
How do you react? What happened when you believed that thought?
What would you be without the thought?
The reason I’m talking and writing about Loving What Is this morning is that readwise.io emailed a highlight I’d made in it when I first read the book on my Kindle.
“Life is so simple when we move back into our own business.” Yes!
Darlene laughed out loud when I read it to her. I emailed it to my daughter Sarah, who first turned me onto Byron Katie’s work. She texted back, “Love that!”
How I hear the quote today fits with what I try to work on via meditation and other methods of shedding magical thinking that just doesn’t work. When I sit, I find my own business, the reality of my life. Simple, right?
Well, maybe for a moment or two as I sit on my cushion. Thoughts quickly arrive to complicate the matter.
I’m smiling as I finish writing this, knowing I have time to log into Jerry’s Zoom room and then pick Sarah up for lunch at Luna Cafe in Scarborough.
Onward!