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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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Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.
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Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
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The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.
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I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.
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When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.
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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
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Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
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War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.
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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 saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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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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You are the effect of your story, that's all.
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You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
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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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All sadness is a tantrum.
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Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
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As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing out there is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
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Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.
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There are no physical problems-only mental ones.
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