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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
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War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.
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Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
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We cannot see what we don't believe.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.
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If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
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I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.
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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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'I don't know' is my favorite position.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.
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People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
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When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.
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