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Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Lived
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Whatever
Freedom
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War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.
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An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.
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I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.
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In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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If you argue against reality you will suffer.
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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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If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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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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The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.
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