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Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

Byron Katie

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Katie
Keeps
Seeking
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Love

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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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