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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the world? I can't. And we all have equal wisdom, so if I can do it then I know that anyone can do it if their mind is open to answering just four simple questions and beginning there.
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Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.
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The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
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Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
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I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience.
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I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. If I feel peaceful, they say, why would I bother taking action at all?
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I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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