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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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