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I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

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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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Humility
Lifetime
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We cannot see what we don't believe.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.
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Look at your life without the thought Something terrible is going to happen.
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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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The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think.
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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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'I don't know' is my favorite position.
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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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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Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.
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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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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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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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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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Lack of understanding is always painful.
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No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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