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

Byron Katie

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.
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Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
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The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think.
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
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If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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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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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
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Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
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So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?
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I like to say it was born out of laughter.
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Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
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That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.
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I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
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The more you reveal, the more you have to question and the freer you get. Until, finally, you're absolutely exposed. And that leaves you in a fearless position, because you can work in the world without the fear of being found out. That is freedom.
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One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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My experience is the opposite.
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