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The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

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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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Investigate
Pain
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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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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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My life is a contribution.
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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 ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
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Look at your life without the thought Something terrible is going to happen.
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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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When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.
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I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.
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Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
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To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.
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Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.
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Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.
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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.
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