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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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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
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All sadness is a tantrum.
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To me, health is a balanced mind. A balanced mind knows how to get enough rest, how to eat properly, how to exercise. I have come out as just a balanced human being, and I don't know anything finer than that.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.
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With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
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The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
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Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
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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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I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They're all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later.
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I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
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How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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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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Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
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