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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
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.
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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
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When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.
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I like to say it was born out of laughter.
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Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.
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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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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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Who would you be without the thought I need more money to be safe? You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.
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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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