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Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.
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Never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
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Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.
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The power of one! If I can't stop war in my life, how can I expect politicians to stop war in the world? I can't. And we all have equal wisdom, so if I can do it then I know that anyone can do it if their mind is open to answering just four simple questions and beginning there.
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If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.
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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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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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The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
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I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.
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Even breathing is a contribution.
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In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They're not personal, they don't belong to us, they just come and go. When they're met with understanding, they're friends.
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Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.
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If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!
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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.
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It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.
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