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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
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
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We cannot see what we don't believe.
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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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My life is a contribution.
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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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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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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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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. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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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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If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.
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I shouldn't steal in this world.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.
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But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.
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