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Peace doesn't require two people it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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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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If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.
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I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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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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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.
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I havent had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. Its somewhat complicated to understand that. Ive hardly ever spoken about it. Youre in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.
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When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.
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We don't attach to people or to things we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
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If someone says, Katie, you are out of order, over something I've said, or, Katie, you are wrong, if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.
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