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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
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So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, Who cares if you're enlightened forever?
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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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What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind
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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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I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. If I feel peaceful, they say, why would I bother taking action at all?
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Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
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When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
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The pain shows you what's left to investigate.
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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 don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.
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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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The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
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I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
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Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
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