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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Wisdom
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Spiritual
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Positivity
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