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Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

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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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Clarity

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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.
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You are the effect of your story, that's all.
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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.
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The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?
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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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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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It's very benign, it seems, to think, There's a tree. In fact, it's a very beautiful thought. If someone chops down all the trees, then we think, Oh, my goodness, something is out of order in my world. We begin to think, Who am I in a world without trees?
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Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?
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You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.
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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 use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.
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And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.
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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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