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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Nightmare
Laughter
Understood
Becomes
Always

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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the world? I can't. And we all have equal wisdom, so if I can do it then I know that anyone can do it if their mind is open to answering just four simple questions and beginning there.
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When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.
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If you argue against reality you will suffer.
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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.
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Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
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No one can give you freedom but you.
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If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
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I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war with someone in my life today - or with myself? Let me work on that. That way war is ending somewhere in the world.
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