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Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Outside
Looking
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When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.
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Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience.
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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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One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
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I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
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We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
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Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.
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Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
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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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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.
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Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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Peace doesn't require two people it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
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You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
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People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
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It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
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That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.
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