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You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Light
Shine
Thought
Drop
Truth
Shining
Littles
Concepts
Little
Wasn
Nothing
Seen
Flashlight
Make
Lying
Flashlights
True
Inquiry

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