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When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Afraid
Teacher
Learning
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Student
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Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
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Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.
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I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
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'I don't know' is my favorite position.
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