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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
Efficiently
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Clarity
Stress
Violence
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Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
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Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
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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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That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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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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Joy is a natural way of being.
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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
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The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.
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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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If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.
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I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
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Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.
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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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There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
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A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.
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