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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
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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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As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing out there is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
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The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
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If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.
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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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It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.
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Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
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all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.
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Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.
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You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
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If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
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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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The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
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Lack of understanding is always painful.
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If someone says, Katie, you are out of order, over something I've said, or, Katie, you are wrong, if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.
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