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Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Life
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Careful
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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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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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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected
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Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
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Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
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It's not your job to like me - it's mine
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
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Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
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The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.
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If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!
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Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?
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Personalities don't love. They want something.
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