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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
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Lover
Buddhist
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Lovers
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Reality
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'I don't know' is my favorite position.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
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There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.
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I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!
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Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
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As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.
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I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They're not personal, they don't belong to us, they just come and go. When they're met with understanding, they're friends.
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
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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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