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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

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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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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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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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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought
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A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.
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I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.
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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
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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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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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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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I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
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We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere.
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All sadness is a tantrum.
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Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
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Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.
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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
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