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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

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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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Mind
Thinking
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Katie
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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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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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Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future
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Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.
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Joy is a natural way of being.
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That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem.
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The teacher you need is the person you're living with.
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The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.
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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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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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The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.
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Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.
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When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.
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Personalities don't love. They want something.
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That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.
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Gratitude is what we are without a story.
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Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.
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People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
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